finalizers on handles

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 05:04 , Simon Marlow wrote:
> There's one exception: if GHC is forced to use blocking mode on a  
> particular FD, and you're using the non-threaded RTS, then a large  
> write using hPutBuf may block all Haskell threads.  There doesn't  
> seem to be much we can do about this, except to use the threaded RTS  
> or lobby the Linux kernel guys for a better API.


POSIX async IO API?  (Although last I checked many distributions built  
kernels without it.)

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