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add forkIOWithUnmask, forkOnIOWithUnmask; deprecate forkIOUnmasked
authorSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:56:39 +0000 (13:56 +0000)
committerSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:56:39 +0000 (13:56 +0000)
commit44d225ad421ce4aefa36f63936c9802efa5c9017
treeeaf3a3537f846593f4749ef98ca6a00b875ec1b5tree | snapshot
parent1258ad2dd3a9dc063c2276ca3bca3271ef7b1bf1commit | diff
add forkIOWithUnmask, forkOnIOWithUnmask; deprecate forkIOUnmasked

With forkIOUnmasked it wasn't possible to reliably set up an exception
handler in the child thread, because exceptions were immediately
unmasked.

forkIOWithUnmask   ::        ((forall a . IO a -> IO a) -> IO ()) -> IO ThreadId
forkOnIOWithUnmask :: Int -> ((forall a . IO a -> IO a) -> IO ()) -> IO ThreadId
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GHC "base" library, with HetMet modifications