[Mono-list] Thread.Suspend

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
02 Feb 2003 00:43:33 +0000


On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:25, tapia wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm coding a little app using System.Threading.Thread, and I've seen
> that the Suspend() method is not implemented.

Suspend() will probably never be implemented while we use the boehm gc
lib.

The reason is that boehm gc needs to suspend threads itself when it
stops the world to do a collection, and will deadlock if a thread is
already suspended by some other means.

- Dick