patch applied (packages/base): This patch adds a timeout function to the base libraries. Trac #980 is

[Simon Marlow]

Fri Jan 26 14:26:15 PST 2007  Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to>
  * This patch adds a timeout function to the base libraries. Trac #980 is
  concerned with this issue. The design guideline for this implementation
  is that 'timeout N E' should behave exactly the same as E as long as E
  doesn't time out. In our implementation, this means that E has the same
  myThreadId it would have without the timeout wrapper. Any exception E
  might throw cancels the timeout and propagates further up. It also
  possible for E to receive exceptions thrown to it by another thread.

    A ./System/Timeout.hs