[D-runtime] A mechanism to kill threads

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

Again, this boils down to knowing what you're doing. You should NOT be
killing a thread if there is any chance whatsoever that the thread
could be doing GC allocation while you do it.

That said, I'm not convinced that this is a problem that we cannot
work around; I think that if kill() would acquire the global thread
lock, this problem could be prevented from happening.

Regards,
Alex

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 14:44:12 Sean Kelly wrote:
>> If the killed thread even has a chance of allocating memory ir could be
>> killed while inside the GC and lock all threads out of the GC forever.
>
> Ouch.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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