[Haskell-cafe] Waiting for async exception (and nothing else)

[Robin Palotai]

You can make a stable name for the MVar which will prevent the rts from
collecting it. Google it, there was a thread about this with Simon Marlow.

Robin

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015, 12:43 PM David Turner <dct25-561bs at mythic-beasts.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there an elegant way to have a thread wait for an async exception but
> nothing else? I tend to do something like
>
>     forever $ threadDelay 1000000000
>
> but this seems like a bit of a hack. Waiting on an otherwise-unused MVar
> or doing 'atomically retry' don't work because GHC kills them off straight
> away.
>
> The context is when using an API that only has a 'withMyThingy' wrapper
> and no explicit openMyThingy and closeMyThingy alternatives. Perhaps that's
> an API problem and the only way to work around this is with something a bit
> hacky?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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