[Haskell-cafe] Concurrency question

[Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

>Hello Dmitry,
>
>Sunday, September 04, 2005, 9:45:37 PM, you wrote:
>
>DV> -- These useful subroutines I saw in "Tackling The Awkward Squad"
>
>DV>            timer = do threadDelay n
>DV>                       return Nothing
>
>Notes from GHC/Conc.hs:
>
>-- Note: threadDelay, threadWaitRead and threadWaitWrite aren't really functional
>-- on Win32, but left in there because lib code (still) uses them (the manner
>-- in which they're used doesn't cause problems on a Win32 platform though.)
>
>may be, authors of "Tackling The Awkward Squad" just wrote their
>subroutines for working in Unix. also you can try -threaded option on
>compilation and try to use forkOS isntead of forkIO
>  
>

   I don't think bounded  threads work under Win32 yet.

JCAB