[Haskell-cafe] Why does sleep not work?

[John Ky]

Hi Haskell Cafe,

I wrote very short program to sleep for 5 seconds compiled with the
-threaded option in ghc on the Mac OS X 1.5.

I am finding that using the sleep function doesn't sleep at all, whereas
using threadDelay does:

main = do
      putStrLn "Waiting for 5 seconds."
      threadDelay 5000000 -- works
      putStrLn "Done."

main = do
      putStrLn "Waiting for 5 seconds."
      sleep 5 -- doesn't sleep at all
      putStrLn "Done."

Anybody know what's happening?

Thanks

-John
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