
Hi, I am currently learning Haskell, and really enjoying it, thankyou to the community for this well considered language. I have started using the async library, and I can't quite figure out some of the documentation, and I wonder if someone could help. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.2.2/docs/Control-Concurrent-Asyn... Makes the comment that: "This is a useful variant of async https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.2.2/docs/Control-Concurrent-Asyn... that ensures an Async is never left running unintentionally." However, I can't see how I would use this. To make the example more concrete, I have a function that looks like this: runNodeHwBridgeUdp :: NodeHwInterface -> NodeHwUdpConfig-> IO() runNodeHwBridgeUdp (NodeHwInterface l0up l0down) config = do putStrLn "Starting Node bridge" -- Launch all the subprocesses: t0 <- async $ (runMsgUpReader hwBridgeSharedData l0up) t1 <- async $ (evalStateT (runUDPWriter hwBridgeSharedData) (initialUdpDispatchData timeUs) ) t2 <- async $ (runUDPReader hwBridgeSharedData l0down) putStrLn "Created child processes. Waiting...." (a, is_exception) <- waitAnyCatchCancel [t0, t1, t2] case is_exception of Right _ -> do error "SHOULD NOT GET HERE" Left exception -> do case (fromException exception) of Just (ex :: HwDestroyException) -> do putStrLn $ "BRIDGE ENDING: >>>> GOOD: SHUTDOWN: " ++ show exception Nothing -> do throwIO exception return () This process launches 3 child processes, and then waits on them. I launch this function as an async-process, and it would be really helpful if when I "cancel"ed it, it would also also cancelled the children, but I don't understand how I would structure that... t0 <- withAsync $ (runMsgUpReader hwBridgeSharedData l0up) $ \async -> do ???? t1 <- withAsync $ (evalStateT (runUDPWriter hwBridgeSharedData) (initialUdpDispatchData timeUs) ) $ \async -> do ???? t2 <- async $ (runUDPReader hwBridgeSharedData l0down) $ \async -> do ???? I feel like I must be missing something here. I'd appreciate any input; many thanks for your time, Mike