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ForkIO / killThread interacting with forkProcess

I wrote the code below and noticed that it was killThreadblocking and the thread was continuing. This only happens if I do it in forkProcess, if I remove forkProcess, everything works as expected.

The code

{-# LANGUAGE TupleSections #-}
module Main where

import Control.Concurrent
import Control.Monad
import System.Posix.Process

{-# NOINLINE primes #-}
primes :: [Integer]
primes = 2:[x | x <- [3..], all (not . flip isDivisorOf x) (takeWhile (< truncate (sqrt $ fromInteger x :: Double)) primes)]
  where x `isDivisorOf` y = y `rem` x == 0

evaluator :: Show a => [a] -> IO ()
evaluator xs = do
  putStrLn "[Evaluator] Started evaluator."
  forM_ xs $ \x -> putStrLn $ "[Evaluator] Got result: " ++ show x
  putStrLn "[Evaluator] Evaluator exited."

test :: IO ThreadId
test = forkIO (evaluator $ filter ((== 13) . flip rem (79 * 5 * 7 * 3 * 3 * 2 * 3)) primes) -- Just some computation that doesn't finsish too fast

main :: IO ()
main = do
  pid <- forkProcess $ do
    a <- test
    threadDelay $ 4000 * 1000
    putStrLn "Canceling ..."
    killThread a
    putStrLn "Canceled"
  void $ getProcessStatus True False pid

Output

$ ghc test.hs -O -fforce-recomp -threaded -eventlog -rtsopts # I also tried with -threaded
$ ./test +RTS -N2  # I also tried without -N
[Evaluator] Started evaluator.
[Evaluator] Got result: 13
[Evaluator] Got result: 149323
[Evaluator] Got result: 447943
[Evaluator] Got result: 597253
[Evaluator] Got result: 746563
[Evaluator] Got result: 1045183
Canceling ...
[Evaluator] Got result: 1194493
[Evaluator] Got result: 1642423
[Evaluator] Got result: 1791733
[Evaluator] Got result: 2090353
[Evaluator] Got result: 2687593
[Evaluator] Got result: 3135523
[Evaluator] Got result: 3284833
[Evaluator] Got result: 4777933
[Evaluator] Got result: 5375173
^C[Evaluator] Got result: 5524483
^C

This is not a common problem when there is no memory allocation, and therefore the GHC thread scheduler does not start. I confirmed that by running the program with the help +RTS -sstderr, which shows that the garbage collector works very often. I am running this on Linux 64bit.

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, forkProcess , . 7.8.1, .

, , throw killThread . main, forkProcess getProcessStatus, :

module Main where

import           Control.Concurrent
import           Control.Monad
import           System.Posix.Process

{-# NOINLINE primes #-}
primes :: [Integer]
primes = 2:[ x | x <- [3..], all (not . flip isDivisorOf x) (takeWhile (< truncate (sqrt $ fromInteger x :: Double)) primes)]
  where x `isDivisorOf` y = y `rem` x == 0

evaluator :: Show a => [a] -> IO ()
evaluator = mapM_ $ \x ->
  putStrLn $ "[Evaluator] Got result: " ++ show x

test :: IO ThreadId
test = forkIO (evaluator $ filter ((== 13) . flip rem (79 * 5 * 7 * 3 * 3 * 2 * 3)) primes) -- Just some computation that doesn't finsish too fast

main :: IO ()
main = do
  a <- test
  threadDelay $ 4000 * 1000
  putStrLn "Canceling ..."
  killThread a
  putStrLn "Canceled"

ghc --make -threaded async.hs ./async +RTS -N4.

- , GHC 7.6.3.

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