as i said in my other post (waiting for moderator approval), there
are many people on this thread, and i'm not sure they are all talking
about the same thing. perhaps a good step forward would be for
each concrete proposal to go into a separate thread (beginning
with a summary of the use pattern to be covered and the concrete
extension proposal claiming to do the job), and then to see whether
there is any consensus for any of them.
Well, my suggestion for one-shot routines would be to implement
a simple Haskell library supporting named semaphores, and named
channels. These resources need to be managed by the OS, so on
unix the obvious way to implement them is to use unix-domain
sockets for the channels, but their might be a more efficient way.
oneTimeInit = do
s <- testAndSetSemaphore "myUniqueString"
if s
then -- already run
else -- not run yet
Keean.
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