[Haskell-cafe] SIGVTALRM and Unbound threads

[Albert Y. C. Lai]

On 14-09-25 03:55 PM, Lane Seppala wrote:
> As the simplest example, compiled with the threaded runtime (and
> neglecting imports):
>
>      main = void $ sleep 10
>
> will be interrupted, whereas
>
>      main = void $ runInUnboundThread $ sleep 10
>
> will complete its 10 second sleep.

Before you commit to your understanding, consider one more experiment 
that changes everything:

main = void $ runInUnboundThread (runInBoundThread $ sleep 10)

Also, consider hitting CTRL-C (or sending SIGINT any way), see what does 
not happen. Do you want this behaviour?