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

Hi John, Which sleep are you using? From which module? Can you show the full source with import statements? Cheers, Peter 2009/2/9 John Ky

Hi Haskell Cafe,

I wrote very short program to sleep for 5 seconds compiled with the -threaded option in ghc on the Mac OS X 1.5.

I am finding that using the sleep function doesn't sleep at all, whereas using threadDelay does:

main = do putStrLn "Waiting for 5 seconds." threadDelay 5000000 -- works putStrLn "Done."

main = do putStrLn "Waiting for 5 seconds." sleep 5 -- doesn't sleep at all putStrLn "Done."

Anybody know what's happening?

Thanks

-John

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