On 01.09 13:09, Jan-Willem Maessen - Sun Labs East wrote: > I was, however, curious what use you had in mind where writes were > racing, but where you nonetheless wanted to perform blind non-blocking > reads. Such situations are generally fraught with peril. In this > case, the peril is starvation of the debug thread---which you may or > may not actually care about.
I was trying to implement safe tryReadChan, which seems to be very simple with tryReadMVar, without it it seems to suffer from various concurrency problems. - Einar Karttunen _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe