[m-rev.] for review: don't terminate process until all threads done

[Peter Wang]

On 2007-05-01, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Peter Wang wrote:
> 
> >On 2007-04-30, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Peter Wang wrote:
> >>
> >>>Branches: main
> >>>
> >>>Prevent multi-threaded programs from terminating as soon as the main 
> >>>thread
> >>>terminates, i.e. the process should not terminate until all threads
> >>>started by
> >>>thread.spawn/3 terminate.
> >>
> >>Is it worth having a predicate that lets the user disable it?
> >
> >Maybe, but it should be done properly, somehow.  As it is now, a Mercury
> >thread might still be running while the runtime is being shut down.
> 
> Is there a mechanism in the runtime for doing this?
> 

No.

Peter
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