[Haskell-cafe] non-blocking recv from UDP socket

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/26/10 05:13 , Vo Minh Thu wrote:
> Is is possible to get Network.Socket.ByteString.recv to be
> non-blocking (i.e. return directly even if no data is available) ?

"What are you really trying to do?"

The Haskelly solution to this is to use threads; let the thread reading the
socket block and the main thread synchronize with it somehow.  (Haskell
threads are very inexpensive; don't be afraid of them.)

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