Concurrncy is not working well in Windows

Ahn Ki-yung kyagrd@bawi.org
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:49:20 +0900


{-
In FreeBSD ghc-5.04.2 the simple echo server below works fine.
(except for broken pipe. Installing signal handler will do good.)
It broadcasts "Welcome!" to all users repeatedly.

But in Windows XP, cygwin, ghc-5.04.3. It gets blocked on the
accept routine and wakes up for a moment when new connections
are requested and then get blocked soon, only printing some lines.
Inserting yield in the code didn't help either.

Is runtime system of cygwin version something wrong or
non-blocking IO bad ? It seems almost impossible to write
servers in win32. The server just STOPs without reason !
-}


import IO
import Monad
import Network
import Control.Exception (finally)
import Control.Concurrent

acceptConns sock = do
    conn@(h,host,port) <- accept sock
    forkIO $ catch (talk conn `finally` hClose h) print
    acceptConns sock

talk conn@(h,_,_) = hPutStrLn h "Welcome!" >> hFlush h >> talk conn

main = withSocketsDo $ do
    sock <- listenOn $ PortNumber 9900
    acceptConns sock