Proposal: System.Timeout module for base (Trac #980)

[Bayley, Alistair]

> >   2. call waitForProcess; when it completes, kill the other 
> thread(s)
> 
> does this work? In GHC docs for killThread/throwTo it says:
> 
> > If the target thread is currently making a foreign call, then the
> > exception will not be raised (and hence throwTo will not 
> return) until
> > the call has completed.


Well, I haven't tried it, like I said. I guess it depends on whether
waitForProcess is implemented with an FFI call.

Note that this blocking behaviour (exception blocked until FFI call
returns) only seems to be with -threaded; with the normal RTS, the
exception is raised (although what happens to the OS thread is not
clear; I guess it still runs). At least, that's my experience on Win XP
with GHC-6.6.

Alistair
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