threadsafe needed

Frederik Eaton frederik at a5.repetae.net
Fri Oct 15 02:25:57 EDT 2004


sleep and usleep in libraries/unix/System/Posix/Unistd.hsc need
'threadsafe' as well.

-- frederik

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 02:16:29AM -0700, John Meacham wrote:
> Quite a few foreign calls in the library are missing threadsafe in their
> declarations. if this could be fixed by 6.2.2 that would be great. in
> particular
> system, rawSystem, and DNS lookups are important to be able to do
> concurrently. 
> 
> Also, is there plans for a threadunsafe? which seems like it would be a
> much more common case than threadsafe and should be much easier to
> implement since there is no chance the haskell runtime can be called
> from a thread it didn't expect.
>         John
> 
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