[M3devel] when CreateThread fails?

[Tony Hosking]

On 2 Nov 2009, at 10:12, Jay K wrote:

> How about:
>
> RuntimeError.i3:
>
>     SystemError,            (* a low-level OS or machine error  
> occurred *)
>
> ?
>
> I could also see:
>     OutOfMemory,            (* NEW() was unable to allocate more  
> memory. *)
>
> since that is probably the only possible reason.

Either of these seems fine to me.


>
>  - Jay
>
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] when CreateThread fails?
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:08:46 -0500
>
> No, that would smear the interfaces.  The thread system should be  
> standalone of libm3.
>
> On 2 Nov 2009, at 09:32, Jay K wrote:
>
> It seems to me that when Fork() fails because CreateThread fails, it  
> should use OSError.Raise(), but the Fork is in m3core and OSError is  
> in libm3. Move it to m3core?
> (and OSError uses Atom.i3, also in libm3)
>
>  - Jay
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