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3 -- Module : Control.Concurrent.Chan
4 -- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow 2001
5 -- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
7 -- Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org
8 -- Stability : experimental
9 -- Portability : non-portable (concurrency)
11 -- Unbounded channels.
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15 module Control.Concurrent.Chan
21 newChan, -- :: IO (Chan a)
22 writeChan, -- :: Chan a -> a -> IO ()
23 readChan, -- :: Chan a -> IO a
24 dupChan, -- :: Chan a -> IO (Chan a)
25 unGetChan, -- :: Chan a -> a -> IO ()
26 isEmptyChan, -- :: Chan a -> IO Bool
29 getChanContents, -- :: Chan a -> IO [a]
30 writeList2Chan, -- :: Chan a -> [a] -> IO ()
35 import System.IO.Unsafe ( unsafeInterleaveIO )
36 import Control.Concurrent.MVar
41 -- A channel is represented by two @MVar@s keeping track of the two ends
42 -- of the channel contents,i.e., the read- and write ends. Empty @MVar@s
43 -- are used to handle consumers trying to read from an empty channel.
45 -- |'Chan' is an abstract type representing an unbounded FIFO channel.
47 = Chan (MVar (Stream a))
51 INSTANCE_TYPEABLE1(Chan,chanTc,"Chan")
53 type Stream a = MVar (ChItem a)
55 data ChItem a = ChItem a (Stream a)
57 -- See the Concurrent Haskell paper for a diagram explaining the
58 -- how the different channel operations proceed.
60 -- @newChan@ sets up the read and write end of a channel by initialising
61 -- these two @MVar@s with an empty @MVar@.
63 -- |Build and returns a new instance of 'Chan'.
64 newChan :: IO (Chan a)
67 readVar <- newMVar hole
68 writeVar <- newMVar hole
69 return (Chan readVar writeVar)
71 -- To put an element on a channel, a new hole at the write end is created.
72 -- What was previously the empty @MVar@ at the back of the channel is then
73 -- filled in with a new stream element holding the entered value and the
76 -- |Write a value to a 'Chan'.
77 writeChan :: Chan a -> a -> IO ()
78 writeChan (Chan _ writeVar) val = do
79 new_hole <- newEmptyMVar
80 modifyMVar_ writeVar $ \old_hole -> do
81 putMVar old_hole (ChItem val new_hole)
84 -- |Read the next value from the 'Chan'.
85 readChan :: Chan a -> IO a
86 readChan (Chan readVar _) = do
87 modifyMVar readVar $ \read_end -> do
88 (ChItem val new_read_end) <- readMVar read_end
89 -- Use readMVar here, not takeMVar,
90 -- else dupChan doesn't work
91 return (new_read_end, val)
93 -- |Duplicate a 'Chan': the duplicate channel begins empty, but data written to
94 -- either channel from then on will be available from both. Hence this creates
95 -- a kind of broadcast channel, where data written by anyone is seen by
98 -- (Note that a duplicated channel is not equal to its original.
99 -- So: @fmap (c /=) $ dupChan c@ returns @True@ for all @c@.)
100 dupChan :: Chan a -> IO (Chan a)
101 dupChan (Chan _ writeVar) = do
102 hole <- readMVar writeVar
103 newReadVar <- newMVar hole
104 return (Chan newReadVar writeVar)
106 -- |Put a data item back onto a channel, where it will be the next item read.
107 unGetChan :: Chan a -> a -> IO ()
108 unGetChan (Chan readVar _) val = do
109 new_read_end <- newEmptyMVar
110 modifyMVar_ readVar $ \read_end -> do
111 putMVar new_read_end (ChItem val read_end)
113 {-# DEPRECATED unGetChan "if you need this operation, use Control.Concurrent.STM.TChan instead. See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4154 for details" #-}
115 -- |Returns 'True' if the supplied 'Chan' is empty.
116 isEmptyChan :: Chan a -> IO Bool
117 isEmptyChan (Chan readVar writeVar) = do
118 withMVar readVar $ \r -> do
119 w <- readMVar writeVar
122 {-# DEPRECATED isEmptyChan "if you need this operation, use Control.Concurrent.STM.TChan instead. See http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4154 for details" #-}
124 -- Operators for interfacing with functional streams.
126 -- |Return a lazy list representing the contents of the supplied
127 -- 'Chan', much like 'System.IO.hGetContents'.
128 getChanContents :: Chan a -> IO [a]
130 = unsafeInterleaveIO (do
132 xs <- getChanContents ch
136 -- |Write an entire list of items to a 'Chan'.
137 writeList2Chan :: Chan a -> [a] -> IO ()
138 writeList2Chan ch ls = sequence_ (map (writeChan ch) ls)