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1 point by akkartik 5425 days ago | link | parent

There shouldn't be a way to interrupt an atomic operation, because then it won't be atomic.

An interruptable atomic is basically a transaction that can be rolled back. If it gets interrupted nothing is changed. Probably doesn't make sense to run it from anywhere but kill-thread and similar operations.

To restate my original point: reasonable semantics for atomic are that threads inside atomic can't be killed. How to kill long-running atomics is a separate issue, needing a lot more engineering.



1 point by aw 5425 days ago | link

reasonable semantics for atomic are that threads inside atomic can't be killed

We agree.

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