Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does sleep not work?

11 Feb 2009


      2009/2/10 George Pollard <porges@porg.es>:
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import System.Posix
main = do
      putStrLn "Waiting for 5 seconds."
      blockSignals $ addSignal sigVTALRM emptySignalSet
      sleep 5
      putStrLn "Done."
Huh! Does the GHC runtime uses this signal? Perhaps for scheduling?

Cheers,
-Corey O'Connor