Re: [Haskell-cafe] Killing threads in foreign calls.

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Jason Dusek wrote:

 I gather I need to write the busy loop for polling for data in  Haskell. Although libpq has a procedure -- PGgetResult -- that  polls for data, it would not respond to killThread.

Please don't use a busy loop! Instead use PQSocket() to get the underlying socket file descriptor, and call ThreadWaitRead/ThreadWaitWrite to use the system event dispatcher (epoll() or select()) to efficiently multiplex. G -- Gregory Collins