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Simon Marlow authored
Deadlock is now an exception instead of a return status from rts_evalIO(). The current behaviour is as follows, and can be changed if necessary: in the event of a deadlock, the top main thread is taken from the main thread queue, and if it is blocked on an MVar or an Exception (for throwTo), then it receives a Deadlock exception. If it is blocked on a BLACKHOLE, we instead send it the NonTermination exception. Note that only the main thread gets the exception: it is the responsibility of the main thread to unblock other threads if necessary. There's a slight difference in the SMP build: *all* the main threads get an exception, because clearly none of them may make progress (compared to the non-SMP situation, where all but the top main thread are usually blocked).
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