Adventures with threadDelay Mac OS X

[Pavel Perikov]

Done: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4956


On 13.02.2011, at 23:18, Johan Tibell wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Pavel Perikov <perikov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi list.
>> 
>> I tried to build myself 64-bit compiler under mac os x. I started with the distribution of 7.0.1 provided by Gregory Wright. It installed and worked fine but 7.0.1 has some known bugs so I moved on to later snapshots.
>> 
>> Unfortunately all the versions I tried had weird threadDelay behavior (64-bit, Mac OS X)
>> 
>> 7.1.20110131 DEVELOPMENT - threadDelay returns immediately
>> 
>> STABLE branch
>> 7.0.1.20110201, 7.0.1.20110211 - threadDelay hangs forever
>> 
>> I tried searching trac quickly but did not found anything relevant.
>> 
>> Is this a known problem?
>> 
>> just to add some fun - i noticed the problem because when working in agda Auto prover hanged instead of answering "No solution found (5s)" :)
> 
> Could you create a small reproducible test case and file a bug against GHC?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Johan