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Stageless: close the finish channel so executor doesn't deadlock (#7448)
# Objective - Fix panic_when_hierachy_cycle test hanging - The problem is that the scope only awaits one task at a time in get_results. In stageless this task is the multithreaded executor. That tasks hangs when a system panics and cannot make anymore progress. This wasn't a problem before because the executor was spawned after all the system tasks had been spawned. But in stageless the executor is spawned before all the system tasks are spawned. ## Solution - We can catch unwind on each system and close the finish channel if one panics. This then causes the receiver end of the finish channel to panic too. - this might have a small perf impact, but when running many_foxes it seems to be within the noise. So less than 40us. ## Other possible solutions - It might be possible to fairly poll all the tasks in get_results in the scope. If we could do that then the scope could panic whenever one of tasks panics. It would require a data structure that we could both poll the futures through a shared ref and also push to it. I tried FuturesUnordered, but it requires an exclusive ref to poll it. - The catch unwind could be moved onto when we create the tasks for scope instead. We would then need something like a oneshot async channel to inform get_results if a task panics.
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