Re: 'interrupted' when exiting

On 04/03/13 06:02, Akio Takano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I compile and run the attached program in the following way, it
> crashes on exit:
>
> $ ghc -threaded thr_interrupted.hs
> $ ./thr_interrupted
> thr_interrupted: Main_dtl: interrupted
>
> This is particularly bad when profiling, because the program
> terminates before writing to the .prof file.
>
> Is this a bug in GHC, or am I supposed to terminate the thread before
> exiting? If it's a GHC issue, how should it be fixed? It seems that
> the error was raised in the C stub code GHC generated for the foreign
> import "wrapper" function.

So this behaviour is "by design", that is, I intended it to work this 
way.  That's not to say it's necessarily the best design; maybe a better 
alternative exists.

The issue is this: when the main thread exits, the RTS starts shutting 
down, and it kills all the other threads.  If any of these threads were 
the result of an external in-call from C, then that call returns, with 
the status "Interrupted".  Now, if this was a foreign export or a 
foreign import "wrapper", then there is no provision for returning an 
error code to the caller, so the foreign export must either

   a) kill the current OS thread