Re: [Chicken-users] Exception when threads are deadlocked?, cryptlib wrappers

[Thomas Chust]

Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> [...]
> You can catch the exception in the thread that causes the deadlock
> (via `handle-exceptions' or `condition-case'). For example:
>
> (define m (make-mutex))
> (mutex-lock! m)
> (handle-exceptions ex (print "ugh.") (mutex-lock! m))
>
> [I'm not sure whether this is SRFI-18 compliant, but I just wanted
> to show handling exceptions]
>
>
> cheers,
> felix

Thanks for the information. But somehow I can't get this to work -- I 
have no problems catching other exceptions in my program, but here I 
probably haven't found the right place to insert the exception handler, 
yet ;) I will do some more analysis of the problem... I have one more 
question on this: What type does the exception caused by a deadlock have 
-- (exn runtime) or something completely different?

cu,
Thomas


PS: For the same project I have created some chicken wrappers for 
cryptlib (a high level cryptography and communications library). If 
anyone was interested, I could read the chicken-setup documentation and 
try to package them as an egg ;)