[Haskell-cafe] Spurious program crashes

[Joel Reymont]

Tomasz,

I think it's much simpler than that. I just changed the trace  
function to send Just String down the channel. Whenever I send  
Nothing (from waitForChildren) the logger just exits. Simple change  
in two places, no need for MVars.

Did I miss anything? The program became much snappier, btw.

	Joel

On Nov 22, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

>> Regardless, simple is elegant and your Maybe solution is simple.
>
> But it also requires that you restructure your code, doesn't it?
> I am not sure we understood each other here.
>
> One way to restructure your code to enable smooth transition to the
> (Chan (Maybe String)) idea would be to change the type of "die  
> request"
> from (MVar ()) to (IO ()). You could use
>
>     (dieVar, die) <- do
>         dieVar <- newEmptyMVar
>         return (dieVar, putMVar dieVar ())
>
> where "dieVar" is used on the receiver side, and die is used on the
> sender side. Then you could easily use a different notification
> mechanism for logger:
>
>     let die = writeChan parent Nothing

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