Bug in touchForeignPtr?

Keean Schupke k.schupke at imperial.ac.uk
Tue Nov 23 08:46:29 EST 2004


Simon Marlow wrote:

>Note that the GC only starts the finaliser thread.  The program can
>still terminate before this thread has run to completion (this is one
>reason why we say that finalisers don't always run before program
>termination).
>  
>
   This sounds like a bug to me... surely you should wait for all
forked threads to finish before the RTS exits.

    Keean.


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