On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Yuras Shumovich <shumovi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here mask is used, but I looks completely useless for me. waitQSem > itself should be called with async exceptions masked, otherwise there is > no way to prevent resource leak. > > Do anyone know why mask is used here? > I thought QSem was known to be completely unsafe and http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SafeSemaphore was recommended instead, with QSem and friends slated for removal? In any case, there are probably leftover attempts to make it safe, yes. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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