First big PITA in reallife D project

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:07:04 -0400, FeepingCreature  
<default_357-line at yahoo.de> wrote:

> On 19.10.2010 13:33, Stephan wrote:
>> BUT it wont work like that. AFTER i stopped all other threads some
>> strange behavior of druntime makes every creation of an InternetAddress
>> instance (internally trying to resolve host) impossible (throws an
>> exception). Additionally even if the Internet Addresses were created
>> upfront the TcpSockets wont connect but throw.
>
> Terminating threads has always been iffy in D. As a simple workaround,  
> use a threadpool to keep a set of threads around blocking on a semaphore  
> (and consuming no resources), and rewrite your problem in terms of tasks  
> (void delegate()).
>
> I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with this. There really should  
> be a list of common D pitfalls, and "Don't ever destroy threads" should  
> be among the top ten.

This one was a simple bug.  He was not terminating threads, rather he was  
letting a thread exit normally.

-Steve