[Haskell-cafe] Printing of asynchronous exceptions to stderr

Bit Connor bit at mutantlemon.com
Sat Nov 13 14:08:35 EST 2010


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...] So we should
> say there are a few things that you can do that guarantee not to call any
> interruptible operations:
>
>  - IORef operations
>  - STM transactions that do not use retry
>  - everything from the Foreign.* modules
>
> and probably some other things.  Maybe we should put this list in the
> documentation.

A list would be very helpful. I am specifically interested in knowing about:

- The try family of MVar functions
- the forkIO function itself

Thanks,
Bit Connor


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