| Portability | portable |
|---|---|
| Stability | provisional |
| Maintainer | John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> |
| Safe Haskell | None |
Control.Concurrent.Thread.Utils
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Description
This module provides various helpful utilities for dealing with threads.
Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org
- runInThread :: IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO ThreadId
I/O utilities
runInThread :: IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO ThreadId
Takes a IO action and a function. The IO action will be called in a separate thread. When it is completed, the specified function is called with its result. This is a simple way of doing callbacks.