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-(*
- * Copyright (C) 2003:
- * Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@cs.unibo.it>
- * for the HELM Team http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
- *
- * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
- * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
- * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
- *
- * HELM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
- * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * HELM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with HELM; if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston,
- * MA 02111-1307, USA.
- *
- * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
- * http://helm.cs.unibo.it/
- *)
-
-exception Can_t_kill of int * string ;; (* pid, reason *)
-
- (* perform an action inside a critical section controlled by given mutex *)
-let do_critical mutex =
- fun action ->
- try
- Mutex.lock mutex;
- let res = Lazy.force action in
- Mutex.unlock mutex;
- res
- with e -> Mutex.unlock mutex; raise e
-;;
-
-let kill_signal = Sys.sigusr2 ;; (* signal used to kill children *)
-let chan = Event.new_channel () ;; (* communication channel between threads *)
-
- (* functions mangling "must die" PID list *)
-let (add_to_dead_threads_walking, remove_from_dead_threads_walking, must_die) =
- let dead_threads_walking = ref [] in
- let mutex = Mutex.create () in
- let add pid = do_critical mutex (lazy (
- dead_threads_walking := pid :: !dead_threads_walking;
- )) in
- let remove pid = do_critical mutex (lazy (
- dead_threads_walking := List.filter ((<>) pid) !dead_threads_walking
- )) in
- let is_in pid = do_critical mutex (lazy (
- List.exists ((=) pid) !dead_threads_walking
- )) in
- (add, remove, is_in)
-;;
-
- (* "kill_signal" handler, check if current process must die, if this is the
- case exits with Thread.exit *)
-ignore (Sys.signal kill_signal (Sys.Signal_handle
- (fun signal ->
- let myself = Unix.getpid () in
- match signal with
- | sg when (sg = kill_signal) && (must_die myself) ->
- remove_from_dead_threads_walking myself;
- prerr_endline "AYEEEEH!";
- Thread.exit ()
- | _ -> ())))
-;;
-
- (* given a thread body (i.e. first argument of a Thread.create invocation)
- return a new thread body which unblock the kill signal and send its pid to
- parent over "chan" *)
-let wrap_thread body =
- fun arg ->
- ignore (Unix.sigprocmask Unix.SIG_UNBLOCK [ kill_signal ]);
- Event.sync (Event.send chan (Unix.getpid ()));
- body arg
-;;
-
-let creation_mutex = Mutex.create () ;;
-
-let create body arg =
- do_critical creation_mutex (lazy (
- ignore (Thread.create (wrap_thread body) arg);
- Event.sync (Event.receive chan)
- ))
-;;
-let kill pid =
- add_to_dead_threads_walking pid;
- try
- Unix.kill pid kill_signal
- with e -> raise (Can_t_kill (pid, Printexc.to_string e))
-;;
-
- (* block kill signal in main process *)
-ignore (Unix.sigprocmask Unix.SIG_BLOCK [ kill_signal ]) ;;
-