[Haskell-cafe] Re: threads + IORefs = Segmentation fault?

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:46:25AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> (I'm a bit behind with haskell-cafe, sorry for not seeing this sooner...)

No problem!

> Yes, that should all be fine, because the IORef is only modified from one 
> thread, and read from the other(s).   If you were modifying the IORef from 
> more than one thread you would need to use atomicallyModifyIORef, or MVars.

If I did modify the IORef from more than one thread (e.g. if a bug were
introduced), would this cause any trouble other than occasional missed
updates or reads of wrong data?
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University