Re: Is there an easier way to cancel threads???

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> I am sure you will be requoted many times. IMHO the way around the
> thread problem is have the OS handle the threading for you. IO completion
> ports and overlapped IO do this on Win32. For once MS almost got it right.
> There is, I believe, a few *nix implementations of IOCPs.
> Anyways, the IOCP model should not be tough to emulate on *nix and
> it solves a *lot* of thread/mutex nightmares (tremble/shake).

I agree with that, and this is the direction we will take in
writing LuaSocket 3.0. We will try to come up with a nice
common interface to AIO what will work both on *nix and
Win32.

However, there will always be someone asking: "Why doesn't
Lua have multi-threading support?"

Something tells me that trying to convince that person not
to use threads will cause him/her to use Python. :/

[]s,
Diego.