[Haskell-cafe] Broadcast signals between threads

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 26.05.2007, 14:29 +0200 schrieb Tomasz Zielonka:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 07:57:45PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > I???m writing a TCP server app ATM. It has one thread per client. Some of
> > the clients want to be notified if the internal state changes, while
> > others are happily chatting with the server, possible modifying the
> > internal state. What I need now is a way for the chatting thread to
> > signal ???anyone interested??? that the state has changed.
> 
> Did you consider using STM for thread synchronisation and communication?
> STM uses change notifications (or something similar) internally to
> implement the "retry" operation. I might be just what you need, but more
> high level.

No, I haven’t done anything with STM yet. Maybe I’ll look into that.

Thanks,
Joachim
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