2 Sep
2004
2 Sep
'04
8 a.m.
On 01.09 13:09, Jan-Willem Maessen - Sun Labs East wrote:
I was, however, curious what use you had in mind where writes were racing, but where you nonetheless wanted to perform blind non-blocking reads. Such situations are generally fraught with peril. In this case, the peril is starvation of the debug thread---which you may or may not actually care about.
I was trying to implement safe tryReadChan, which seems to be very simple with tryReadMVar, without it it seems to suffer from various concurrency problems. - Einar Karttunen