[Haskell-beginners] Testing unpure network code

Maciej Piechotka uzytkownik2 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 12 07:03:07 EDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 09:59 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> > Hello. I have a problem with testing. I've wrote a client library for
> > NNTP protocol. However I don't know how to test it.
> > 
> > I though about spawning a thread for server inside a test but Haskell
> > (ghc and hugs?) uses green blocking threads so forkIO is not an option.
> 
> GHC forkIO uses threads that can make blocking foreign calls in parallel 
> (*not* blocking the whole process), at least if you compile with
> ghc -threaded
> 
> -Isaac

Thank you. Is there any guide how to set up tests? I have sources in
src/ directory and tests in tests/.

Regards
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