update the question about concurrent threads & GHCi
authorSimon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:39:47 +0000 (15:39 +0000)
committerSimon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com>
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:39:47 +0000 (15:39 +0000)
docs/users_guide/ghci.xml

index f9efe34..cd2a836 100644 (file)
@@ -1556,10 +1556,9 @@ Prelude> :set -fno-glasgow-exts
        <term>Concurrent threads don't carry on running when GHCi is
         waiting for input.</term>
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        <term>Concurrent threads don't carry on running when GHCi is
         waiting for input.</term>
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-         <para>No, they don't.  This is because the Haskell binding
-         to the GNU readline library doesn't support reading from the
-         terminal in a non-blocking way, which is required to work
-         properly with GHC's concurrency model.</para>
+         <para>This should work, as long as your GHCi was built with
+         the <option>-threaded</option> switch, which is the default.
+         Consult whoever supplied your GHCi installation.</para>
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