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I guess not. How can you define a non-daemonic forkIO in
terms of a daemonic one?
Both suggestions so far involve adding something extra to the
end of the main
thread to wait on MVars. And as a matter of fact, neither of
these solutions
address the
for the MVar. I suppose that a possible
alternative
to having separate daemonic and non-daemonic forking would be to have an atexit-type
function:
atThreadExit :: IO () - IO()
which forkChild could use to wait for the mvar. But I'm not sure I like this, unless
there are other likely uses
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 15:34:51 +0200, George Russell wrote:
Einar Karlson, my predecessor, asked for daemonic forking as for Java. In
Java you have ordinary threads and daemonic threads; the process ends when
only daemonic threads are still running. The GHC team seem to have gone
ahead
