Asynchronous Exceptions

[Hannah Schroeter]

Hello!

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:38:35AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:

> [...]

> However, I agree that sometimes you really want to be able to do this,
> so perhaps we need another form of 'block' which doesn't allow *any*
> exceptions to be delivered, for those times when you know that the time
> spent waiting in an interruptible operation is going to be bounded.

But even things like putStr can block for an unbounded amount of
time. E.g. stdout is a pipe and the reader just doesn't read it for
n hours (n unknown), etc.

Kind regards,

Hannah.