[dmd-concurrency] Shutdown protocol

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I understand now, thanks. Chatter on this list is getting better and 
better! Thanks to all!

Andrei

Michel Fortin wrote:
> Le 2010-01-20 à 15:40, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit :
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>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> For the time being we could leave things as they are, but add the capability to manually call shutdown in a simple way.
>> Uhm, that sounds a lot like exit() in C.
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> Not at all.
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> By saying "leaving things as they are" I meant leaving things as you thought for the book: main thread sends a shutdown message to other threads upon termination.
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> "tid.shutdown()" would just send a shutdown exception to the thread, like you suggested main would do upon termination. The only reason to have a dedicated function "tid.shutdown()" instead of just writing "tid.send(new Shutdown)" is to give it a little more weight as a standard way to shutdown a thread.
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>> An application should end when main() ends, period.
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> Agree.
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