[Haskell-cafe] Why do "unsafe" foreign calls block other threads?

wren ng thornton wren at freegeek.org
Thu Aug 5 15:48:57 EDT 2010


John Meacham wrote:
> 'reentrant' and 'blocking' which could
> be specified independently would be better and would be more
> future-proof against changes in the RTS or between compilers.

+1.

Perhaps we should propose it to the haskell' committee.

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~wren


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