spawn-linked ( quot name -- thread )
Message-passing concurrency » Linked exceptions

Vocabulary
concurrency.messaging

Inputs

quot	a quotation
name	a string

Outputs

thread

a thread

Word description
Start a thread which runs the given quotation. If that quotation throws an error which is not caught then the error will get propagated to the thread that spawned it. This can be used to set up 'supervisor' threads that restart child threads that crash due to uncaught errors.

See also
spawn

Definition

USING: concurrency.mailboxes ;

IN: concurrency.messaging

: spawn-linked ( quot name -- thread )
    my-mailbox spawn-linked-to ;