// Copyright 2012-2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. use std::task; fn start(tx: &Sender, i0: int) { let mut i = i0; while i > 0 { tx.send(0); i = i - 1; } } pub fn main() { // Spawn a task that sends us back messages. The parent task // is likely to terminate before the child completes, so from // the child's point of view the receiver may die. We should // drop messages on the floor in this case, and not crash! let (tx, rx) = channel(); task::spawn(proc() { start(&tx, 10) }); rx.recv(); }