Re: [Chicken-users] Exception when threads are deadlocked?, cryptlib wrappers

[Felix Winkelmann]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 12:51:43 +0200, Thomas Chust <address@hidden> wrote:

> Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > So, one option would be to change the scheduler to throw the deadlock
> > exception to a particular thread, say, the primordial one.
> >  Would that be desirable? (comments are welcome)
>
> I think that may be a good idea. But didn't this mean, that the  
> exception would occur at a random point in the primordial thread?

Yes, but the important thing is that you can establish the handler
in a (dynamic) context *surrounding* the actual execution where
the deadlock can appear:

(handle-exceptions ... (main))

It may be useful to mark the deadlock exception, to make it easier
using `condition-case' to differentiate between different
exceptions.

> I have packaged the files and you can download the egg at  
> http://www.chust.org/projects/crypt.egg. A readme file for the egg can  
> be found at http://www.chust.org/projects/crypt-readme.txt
>
> If you consider it worth the effort, you may of course add this to the  
> eggs page.

Thanks very much, I'd be happy to include it there.


cheers,
felix