immortal: Spawn threads that never die (unless told to do so)

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A small library to create threads that never die. This is useful e.g. for writing servers.

Versions [faq]	0.1, 0.2, 0.2.2, 0.2.2.1, 0.3
Change log	CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies	base (>=4.5 && <5), stm, unliftio-core (>=0.1.1.0) [details]
License	MIT
Author	Roman Cheplyaka
Maintainer	roma@ro-che.info
Category	Concurrency
Home page	https://github.com/feuerbach/immortal
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/feuerbach/immortal.git
Uploaded	by RomanCheplyaka at 2018-04-16T08:18:15Z
Distributions	LTSHaskell:0.3, NixOS:0.3, Stackage:0.3
Downloads	4216 total (91 in the last 30 days)
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Status	Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2018-04-16 [all 1 reports]

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immortal

A small library to create threads that never die. This is useful e.g. for writing servers.

import qualified Control.Immortal as Immortal
import Control.Concurrent (threadDelay)
import Control.Monad (forever)

main = do
  -- start an immortal thread
  _thread <- Immortal.create $ \ _thread -> do
    -- do stuff

  -- in the main thread, sleep until interrupted
  -- (e.g. with Ctrl-C)
  forever $ threadDelay maxBound