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From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@epfl.ch>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Has the thread cancellation problem evolved ?
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1A9DD420-4965-455B-9EE6-E3591892E463@epfl.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1188301371.7533.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Le 28 août 07 à 13:42, Gerd Stolpmann a écrit :

> But I don't see a good way to stop I/O operations. Simply close all  
> file
> descriptors? Yes, possible, but you may leave files in an  
> unrecoverable
> state.

Again I'm not interested in stopping IO but I just note that if the  
user gets bored because its app hangs on IO, he will kill the process  
and the effect on files will be the same.

I still think -- despite the caveats one needs to be aware of, e.g.  
about IO -- the feature is worthwhile and essential for ui programs  
that can trigger expensive computations. But since it seems to be  
seen more as a curse than a blessing I think I'll forget about the  
wish and try to get around with Gerd's hack.

Thanks for the discussion,

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-28 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-25 13:58 Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-25 15:29 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-08-26 23:47   ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27  0:18     ` Till Varoquaux
2007-08-27  4:38     ` skaller
2007-08-27 10:12       ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 11:28         ` skaller
2007-08-27 11:49           ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-27 12:24           ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 12:38             ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-27 13:09               ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-27 14:27               ` skaller
2007-08-27  7:55     ` Markus E L
2007-08-27 23:33   ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-08-28  9:26     ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-28 11:42       ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-08-28 14:46         ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2007-08-28 14:23       ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-08-28 14:35         ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-28 14:44           ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-28 14:54           ` Robert Fischer
2007-08-28 15:12             ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-28 15:32               ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-08-28 15:40               ` skaller
2007-08-29  8:12               ` Lionel Elie Mamane
2007-08-28 15:00           ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-08-25 15:44 ` skaller
2007-08-26 23:24   ` Alain Frisch
2007-08-25 15:57 ` Gordon Henriksen

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