[Haskell-cafe] FFI woes!

[Ben Rudiak-Gould]

Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

 >If there was a way to simply defer GC (like you attatch a function to
 >an object which can simply deny the GC the right to remove it
 >depending on its state) then I wouldn't have to do anything
 >significant in the finalizer.

Why not spawn a thread which starts the playback, waits for it to 
finish, and then exits, and wrap the whole thread in a call to 
withForeignPtr? Then your finalizer won't be called prematurely.

-- Ben