Signals + minimal proposal (was Re: asynchronous exceptions)

[John Meacham]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 08:54:32AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> now If I have a handler registered that throws an exception to the
> current thread, what happens?  handleLoop is aborted, the exception is
> propagated to the top level of the thread, where the top-level exception
> handler calls exitWith again, and promptly deadlocks because exitMVar is
> already empty.

True, the handlers probably should run in their own thread then. hmm..
will think more on these issues...

        John

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