[Haskell-cafe] RE: Safe forking question

[ duh, hit send by mistake, message continues... ] Chris Kuklewicz wrote:

forkInheritIO :: IO () -> IO ThreadId -- inherits parent's block or unblock status

forkBlockedIO :: IO () -> IO ThreadId -- starts the action in "block" mode. Must manually "unblock"

Either of these is certainly possible, and I agree that forkBlockedIO is more generally useful than my forkCatchIO. One tantalising possibility is that we could make forkIO have the forkInheritIO behaviour without breaking much code, since I bet forkIO is almost never called inside block. Cheers, Simon