Copyright	Copyright (C) 2004-2011 John Goerzen
License	BSD3
Maintainer	John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Stability	provisional
Portability	portable
Safe Haskell	Safe
Language	Haskell98

Control.Concurrent.Thread.Utils

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I/O utilities

Description

This module provides various helpful utilities for dealing with threads.

Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org

Synopsis

runInThread :: IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO ThreadId

I/O utilities

runInThread :: IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO ThreadId Source #

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.