Odd behavior of ncurses with -threaded

[Simon Marlow]

On 11/11/2010 22:41, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu
> <mailto:ezyang at mit.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I was under the impression we fixed this:
>
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/850
>
>     That is, we should be using SIGVTALRM, not SIGALRM, these days, except
>     under certain conditions when your operating system doesn't support
>     the proper timer (which Linux most assuredly does).
>
>
> It's still a pretty common problem with all kinds of libraries.
>
> http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/09/04/dealing-with-fragile-c-libraries-e-g-mysql-from-haskell/

Is there anything that we could do in GHC to improve the situation?  I 
suppose we could have a dedicated OS thread who's job it was to sit 
around and run the signal handler every Nth of a second.

Cheers,
	Simon