<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com">bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello John,<br>
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Monday, October 18, 2010, 8:15:42 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> If anyone is listening, I would very much like for there to be a<br>
> mechanism by which external functions can be called "unsafe"-ly, but<br>
> without blocking all other Haskell threads. I have code that does this:<br>
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</div>+RTS -N2<br></blockquote><div><br>This doesn't work, which was why the OP asked in the first place. When a thread calls an unsafe foreign function, it blocks everything until that function returns.<br></div></div>