Can withAsync guarantee that its child will be terminated if the thread executing withAsync gets an exception? To remind, here's an implementation of withAsync: withAsyncUsing :: (IO () -> IO ThreadId) -> IO a -> (Async a -> IO b) -> IO b -- The bracket version works, but is slow. We can do better by -- hand-coding it: withAsyncUsing doFork = \action inner -> do var <- newEmptyTMVarIO mask $ \restore -> do t <- doFork $ try (restore action) >>= atomically . putTMVar var let a = Async t (readTMVar var) r <- restore (inner a) `catchAll` \e -> do cancel a; throwIO e cancel a return r I am interested in the case when an exception arrives which transfers control to 'cancel', and then another exception arrives to the same thread. Even though 'catchAll' (which is a type-restricted synonym for catch) masks the exception handler, 'throwTo' inside 'cancel' is interruptible (as stated by the documentation). Will this scenario lead to a thread leakage? Roman