Massive patch for the first months work adding System FC to GHC #35

[ghc-hetmet.git] / rts / Capability.c

diff --git a/rts/Capability.c b/rts/Capability.c
index 7fc1c57..99c68fd 100644 (file)
--- a/rts/Capability.c
+++ b/rts/Capability.c
@@ -678,8 +678,10 @@ shutdownCapability (Capability *cap, Task *task)
     // we now have the Capability, its run queue and spare workers
     // list are both empty.
 
-    // We end up here only in THREADED_RTS
-    closeMutex(&cap->lock);
+    // ToDo: we can't drop this mutex, because there might still be
+    // threads performing foreign calls that will eventually try to 
+    // return via resumeThread() and attempt to grab cap->lock.
+    // closeMutex(&cap->lock);
 }
 
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