Concurrent question

Johannes Waldmann joe@isun.informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 08:27:49 +0100 (MET)


Suppose I have a program with two (ghc-)threads,
one that does execute some  `system' commands, 
and another one that accepts socket connections.

While the system thread waits (for the system call to finish),
will the other thread be awake (and accept new connections)?

Best regards,
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