17 Nov
2005
17 Nov
'05
10:38 a.m.
Actually, this has just become crucial for me. In my using of hWaitForInput I missed that it blocks all other threads if no input is available :-(. Arghh! I still need timeouts. On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
Regarding the behaviour of killThread, I believe the version in GHC is slightly different from the version described in the Asynchronous Exceptions paper, in particular the GHC version blocks until the exception has been delivered to the target thread (use another forkIO to get the fully async version).