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From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
To: nadji@noos.fr
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native Threads
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 13:35:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021006113502.GA1636@iliana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DA01AAF.14FD242C@noos.fr>

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:12:47PM +0200, nadji@noos.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just been playing with threads and I noticed at execution
> time that Thread.kill is not implemented by the posix-compiled
> version of the library. I used this flag because I thought that
> it would be faster (please correct me if I'm wrong), and there
> was no mention that Thread.kill would not be implemented.
> By looking at the sources, I learned that the reason is
> "problems with cleanup handlers on several platforms".
> That's fine with me, but I would like to compile my
> program :)

Or at least a more proeminent note on this in the documentation.
I don't think it is acceptable to have to look at the source to discover
that a documented function is just not available.

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-06 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-06 11:12 nadji
2002-10-06 11:35 ` Sven LUTHER [this message]
2002-10-06 14:34 ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-06 15:02   ` nadji
2002-10-13  8:43 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13  9:04   ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13 10:42     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-13 11:26       ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13 10:45   ` nadji
2002-10-13 15:21     ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-13 15:26       ` nadji

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