Re: how to catch GHC "no threads to run" exception?

In local.haskell, you wrote:

Since I have 3 threads waiting on takeMVar, do I have to wrap all of them with Exception.catch?

Yes. Especially since ghc-5.04, you cannot be sure which of the blocked threads will get killed first: http://haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2002-July/003779.html -- http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/stolz/ *** PGP *** S/MIME http://news.bbc.co.uk: The Israeli army destroyed the bomber's family's house afterwards, a military statement said.