On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:56:42 +0100, Sebastian Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:31:10 +0200, Einar Karttunen > <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > > Hello > > > > What is the best way of doing an computation with a timeout? > > I like the approach taken in "Tackling the ackward squad": >
I should also state that this isn't safe when it comes to asynchronous exceptions. If one were to raise an exception in a timeout'd computation it would simply abort the takeMVar which means the two child processes won't get killed. /S -- Sebastian Sylvan +46(0)736-818655 UIN: 44640862 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
