[Haskell-cafe] killing a running thread interactively

[S. Alexander Jacobson]

Ok, I didn't think Haskell had mutable global variables.
How would this work?

-ALex-

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Simon Marlow wrote:

> There's no getAllThreadIds or similar right now.  You have to save the
> ThreadIds yourself, perhaps in a global variable.  Writing to a file
> doesn't work because there's no instance Read ThreadId.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
>
> On 21 September 2005 21:14, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
>
>> More particularly, is there a getAllThreadIds function somewhere?
>>
>> -Ale-
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
>>
>>> Is the general pattern to write all threadIds to a file, and then
>>> have a separate function that takes the file and kills them?
>>>
>>> Or is there something more clever?
>>>
>>> -Alex-
>>>
>>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16 September 2005 20:42, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If I am running a server interactively. (using ghci).
>>>>> Is there any way to kill its running threads without terminating
>>>>> the interpreter?
>>>>
>>>> If you can get ThreadIds for the threads, yes.  GHCi doesn't
>>>> (currently) create a new thread for each expression evaluation, so
>>>> attempting to kill that thread might kill your GHCi session (it
>>>> shouldn't but that's another story).
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 	Simon
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