Understanding behavior of BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar exception

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Brandon Simmons
<brandon.m.simmons at gmail.com> wrote:
> What I think I've learned here is that the BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar
> exception is raised in all the blocked threads "at once" as it were.
> That despite the fact that the handler code in 'lockPrint' restores
> the lock for successive threads.
>
> This would also seem to imply that putMVar's in an exception handler
> don't stop the runtime from raising the BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar. But
> that doesn't really seem right.

Does anything change if you somehow force a GC sometime after "good2"?
 Perhaps with some calculation generating garbage, perhaps with
performGC.  IIRC, the runtime detects BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar on GC.
 But I'm probably wrong =).

Cheers,

-- 
Felipe.