> Simon Marlow wrote:
> > Hmm, good points. The delay before running the signal
> handler shouldn't be
> > too long, unless you have *lots* of running threads.
> Actually it is long in the case of the program I'm trying (1
> minute and counting).
> I think that's because input is done via a _ccall_ (using
> Readline actually).
> Would I be right in thinking that _ccall_'s bring everything
> else to a stop?
Absolutely - that's because we're still not using OS threads (see earlier
discussions), so if a Haskell thread decides to block in a ccall then
there's nothing you can do about it.
I don't think there's an easy way to use readline in a thread-friendly way
without hacking the readline source itself, sorry about that.
Cheers,
Simon
