Re: [Haskell-cafe] FFI woes!

Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

If there was a way to simply defer GC (like you attatch a function to an object which can simply deny the GC the right to remove it depending on its state) then I wouldn't have to do anything significant in the finalizer.

Why not spawn a thread which starts the playback, waits for it to finish, and then exits, and wrap the whole thread in a call to withForeignPtr? Then your finalizer won't be called prematurely. -- Ben