On 05 October 2004 10:16, John Meacham wrote:
Quite a few foreign calls in the library are missing threadsafe in their declarations. if this could be fixed by 6.2.2 that would be great. in particular system, rawSystem, and DNS lookups are important to be able to do concurrently.
Thanks, I've fixed those. We don't have threadsafe by the way; only safe/unusafe. Safe also means threadsafe.
Also, is there plans for a threadunsafe? which seems like it would be a much more common case than threadsafe and should be much easier to implement since there is no chance the haskell runtime can be called from a thread it didn't expect.
Not sure what you mean by threadunsafe. Is it different from plain unsafe? We *want* the RTS to be able to be called by threads it doesn't expect. Otherwise how do you implement a thread-safe library API in Haskell? Cheers, Simon