Proposal: System.Timeout module for base

[Einar Karttunen]

On 30.01 12:20, Simon Marlow wrote:
> How would you interrupt the FFI call when the timeout expired? 
> pthread_cancel(), maybe?

That is one solution. Just letting it running and returning
is "good enough" for most things. One common thing would be
network related functions if implemented in a blocking way (over
various C libraries). They usually do need timeouts and are
blocking FFI calls.

- musasabi