Re: [Sbcl-devel] RFC: exiting SBCL vs returning from a thread vs aborting a thread

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

On 31 December 2011 15:31, Nikodemus Siivola <nik...@ra...> wrote:

Par for course, I send the draft without all the fixes. So:

> Additionally, non-main threads have TERMINATE-THREAD restart, but no
> ABORT restart -- but the latter is required by ANSI -- and there is no

s/required/recommended/

Specifically: "Implementors are encouraged to make sure that there is
always a restart named abort around any user code so that user code
can call abort at any time and expect something reasonable to happen;
exactly what the reasonable thing is may vary somewhat."

> restart SB-THREAD:ABORT-THREAD
>
>  Bound by all threads except the main thread of the process. Invoking
>  this restarts is equivalent to calling ABORT-THREAD.

Ignore this bit. Not part of the proposal at all.

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus