[Haskell-cafe] STM and unsafePerformIO/bracket

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Rob Leslie <rob at mars.org> wrote:

> I’ve run into a difficulty I’d appreciate some advice to solve.
>
> I am trying to make a call to C (through the FFI) within an STM
> transaction to compute what is effectively a pure result. By itself this
> doesn’t seem to be a problem, except that the C function depends on some
> global state in a way that compromises thread safety, and so I would like
> to


This does not sound particularly pure to me, from a Haskell standpoint.

>  unsafePerformIO $ bracket (takeMVar lock) (putMVar lock) $ \_ -> do
>

And this looks to me like completely undefined behavior. I suspect bracket
*can't* work in unsafePerformIO.

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