Some problems writing a threaded program
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 06:39:29 EST 2008
John Vogel wrote:
> Thankyou both Don Stewart and Simon Marlow for your responses.
>
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> By adding yield and threadDelay in certain spots I have at least prevented
> some of the threads from being starved of CPU time.
>
> The only issue now is that terminateProcess doesn't always terminate
> netstat.exe in the cmd.exe so I don't get an exit condition.
Windows doesn't have the same concept of process groups that Unix has, so
killing a shell doesn't necessarily kill its children. Have a look at the
hoops Ian had to jump through to get this working for our timeout program
in the GHC testsuite:
http://darcs.haskell.org/testsuite/timeout/
Cheers,
Simon
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