Finalizers and FFI

[Gracjan Polak]

Alastair Reid wrote:
> 
> You could give the finalizer thread a chance to run by calling 
> Control.Concurrent.yield before exiting:
> 

Thanks, it worked. This is ok for me, because my finalizer only closes 
some handles. Those are closed at program end anyway, so in this case I 
can live with it.

BUT: This can make some people unhappy. Isn't there a more deterministic 
  way to schedule finalizers? I've read about MVars etc, but this seems 
like an ugly hack around GC deficiency.

Do weak references have same problem?

Also documentation about newForeignPtr (in Control.Concurrent and in 
Foreign.ForeignPtr) is lying: "The only guarantee is that the finaliser 
runs before the program terminates." Currently there is no guarantee :)

-- 
Gracjan