First big PITA in reallife D project

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/19/10 11:07 CDT, FeepingCreature 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.

Terminating threads has always been iffy in all languages that use 
native threads. I've discussed with Sean a couple of times about ways to 
define a little protocol and API for orderly thread termination. We need 
something like a callback mechanism - atShutdown().

Andrei