John Vogel wrote:
Thankyou both Don Stewart and Simon Marlow for your responses.By adding yield and threadDelay in certain spots I have at least prevented some of the threads from being starved of CPU time. The only issue now is that terminateProcess doesn't always terminate netstat.exe in the cmd.exe so I don't get an exit condition.
Windows doesn't have the same concept of process groups that Unix has, so killing a shell doesn't necessarily kill its children. Have a look at the hoops Ian had to jump through to get this working for our timeout program in the GHC testsuite:
http://darcs.haskell.org/testsuite/timeout/ Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
