[Haskell-cafe] Problem with System.Timeout in Windows

[Ryan Yates]

I tried your example on 6.12.3 and it worked fine for me (Windows 7).


Ryan Yates


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Adolfo Builes
<builes.adolfo at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> I have been trying to use System.timeout in windows, but for some
> reason it doesn't work, a concrete example is:
>
> import Network.HTTP
> import System.Timeout
>
> main = do
>  rsp <- timeout 10000000  $ simpleHTTP $ getRequest "http://10.1.2.3"
>  case rsp of
>    Just rsp -> print $ show  rsp
>    Nothing  -> error "Nothing"
>
> In this case I would expect to receive "Nothing" after 10 seconds, but
> it ignores the timeout function.
>
> I'm compiling with -threaded, but it does not work either, I'm using ghc
> 6.12.2.
>
> Does someone know what could be going wrong ?
>
> Thanks !
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