From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Julien Narboux <Julien.Narboux@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The best way to circumvent the lack of Thread.kill ?
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 10:54:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051102105419.GB5067@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43688C4C.2080606@inria.fr>
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:52:12AM +0100, Julien Narboux wrote:
> My problem is that I don't want to pollute my target thread with checks
> for a variable.
>
> Indeed, I am writing a graphical user interface for an automated theorem
> prover.
How about forking off the theorem prover as a separate process? You
can communicate the result back to the main program using either a
status code or a pipe (depending on how complex the result structure
is). The interrupt button just kills the forked process.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-02 9:52 Julien Narboux
2005-11-02 10:54 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2005-11-02 11:22 ` [Caml-list] " Julien Narboux
2005-11-02 13:00 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-11-02 12:57 ` Julien Narboux
2005-11-02 13:23 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-11-02 14:00 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-11-02 14:32 ` Julien Narboux
2005-11-02 15:07 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-11-02 14:53 ` David Teller
2005-11-02 16:24 ` Alessandro Baretta
2005-11-02 17:00 ` David Teller
2005-11-02 18:43 ` Alessandro Baretta
2005-11-02 18:29 ` David Teller
2005-11-08 20:36 ` Jonathan Bryant
2005-11-09 1:18 ` Grégory Guyomarc'h
2005-11-09 12:37 ` Richard Jones
[not found] ` <4371A0A6.4010306@laposte.net>
2005-11-09 13:32 ` Jonathan Bryant
2005-11-02 11:33 EL CHAAR Rabih SGAM/AI/SAM
2005-11-08 3:23 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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