On 3/31/06, John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - I wouldn't include threadWaitRead, threadWaitWrite,
> > or threadDelay at all. These can all be implemented using
> > FFI, so don't belong in the concurrency library. Their
> > presence is largely historical.
>
> They all have special implementations on a 'epoll' based system.
> threadDelay turns into the timeout parameter to select, waitread/write
> turn into the basic building blocks of your epoll wait-list. We
> definitly want these in the interface as primitves.
And they're all a pain because they don't take sets of files, only
single ones. Can we please have something like:
threadWait :: Timeout -> [Handle] -> IO ?
--
Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"You can't prove anything."
-- Gödel's Incompetence Theorem
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