RE: threadWaitRead/threadWaitWrite

[Sigbjorn Finne (Intl Vendor)]

George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 
> 
> I have some code which uses threadWaitRead and 
> threadWaitWrite which I'd like to make more portable.
> Is it possible to approximate them in a way
> which works for Hugs98 and Haskell 4.02?  If not, as they 
> look fairly useful, could they be added to the standard
> Concurrent module?
> 

Support for these two are coming soon for ghc-4.xx. When there's
a Hugs release out that also uses the new RTS, then it could
quite easily have them too - supporting these prims on top of
Hugs' current implementation of Conc. Haskell doesn't appear
feasible.

--sigbjorn