[Haskell-cafe] STM and garbage collector

[Tomas Carnecky]

Who throws the exception? Documentation of `throwTo` sais that the calling
thread is blocked until the exception is delivered. If the target thread
has async exceptions masked then the exception is never delivered.

Does that also mean a blocked thread which has async exceptions masked is,
essentially, a resource leak?

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:23 AM Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com> wrote:

> In this case, the GC will indeed find that no one has a reference to the
> thread.  However, instead of garbage collecting the thread, the
> BlockedIndefinitely exception is thrown to it.  So, it resumes execution of
> the thread with that exception.
>
> This also applies to threads blocked on MVars.
>
> -Michael
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If a thread is blocking indefinitely in an STM transaction (reading from
>> a queue to which nobody else has a reference and thus can not write into),
>> is the runtime smart enough to GC the thread? Or do I have to kill the
>> thread manually?
>>
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