Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question about forkIO

Hey Donn ...... thanks, it turns out that threads do resume!!! This is how I got my gmail stuff working. I only have a doubt if the TCP "keep/alive" stuff continues to happen or not.... Regards, Kashyap On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Donn Cave wrote:

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Say I have a haskell function 'f' that does a forkIO and starts an action "a". I create a DLL of this haskell code and inovke "f" from C. Can I expect the "a" to continue to run once "f" has returned to C?

Once control returns to f's caller, outside of the Haskell runtime, then there isn't any way to dispatch IO threads - that's done by the runtime, so it can happen only while executing in the runtime. I am not a forkIO expert, that's just how it appears to me from my limited understanding of how they work.

For extra credit - do the old IO threads resume if you call 'f' again, so you'd have more each time? (I don't know!)

Donn

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