Re: PROPOSAL(S): threadWaitError and threadWaitErrorSTM

I just went with the common documentation name, I know this includes out-of-band data, etc. If it makes you happier, feel free to consider this proposal with s/Error/Exceptional, regardless of how it's called, it'd be nice if we could use this from within Haskell. Cheers, Merijn On Mar 16, 2014, at 16:09 , Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Merijn Verstraaten wrote: threadWaitError :: Fd -> IO () threadWaitErrorSTM :: Fd -> IO (STM (), IO ())

to allow for blocking on detecting error condition on file descriptors, similar to what C's select() allows.

If you mean the third bitmask, it is not for errors (notwithstanding the documentation on some systems); an "exceptional condition" is not an error, it's MSG_OOB data. Errors show as "ready" on the appropriate mask (read or write) since a read (resp. write) will return immediately with the error instead of blocking.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1342712/nix-select-and-exceptfds-errorfds... and http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select_tut.2.html for more information.

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