[GHC] #980: timeout

[GHC]

#980: timeout
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 Reporter:  simons          |          Owner:         
     Type:  task            |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal          |      Milestone:         
Component:  libraries/base  |        Version:  6.6    
 Severity:  normal          |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:                  |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:                  |   Architecture:  Unknown
       Os:  Unknown         |  
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Changes (by simons):

  * summary:  forkChild, waitForChild, parIO, and timeout => timeout
  * type:  proposal => task

Comment:

 There was no interest in parIO or any of the other primitives.

 Over the course of the discussion, a very nice timeout implementation
 emerged in http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2006-
 November/006238.html, but no-one found the time to prepare it for
 submission to the libraries.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/980>
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