Holumbus.Common.Threading

Portability	portable
Stability	experimental
Maintainer	Stefan Schmidt (stefanschmidt@web.de)

Description

Version : 0.1

Operations to start and stop threads which will not be killed when a regular exception occurs. In this case, the thread will continue working. Such a thread can only be killed by the stop-method. This whole thing is a wrapper around the normal lightweight thread functions.

The created threads execute a function in an infinite loop. This is the normal usecase for message dispatcher threads.

Synopsis

type Thread = MVar ThreadData

newThread :: IO Thread

setThreadDelay :: Int -> Thread -> IO ()

setThreadAction :: IO () -> Thread -> IO ()

setThreadErrorHandler :: IO () -> Thread -> IO ()

startThread :: Thread -> IO ()

stopThread :: Thread -> IO ()

Documentation

type Thread = MVar ThreadData

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The thread datatype

newThread :: IO Thread

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Creates a new thread object. The thread will not be running.

setThreadDelay :: Int -> Thread -> IO ()

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Sets the delay between two loop cycles. Default value: no delay.

setThreadAction :: IO () -> Thread -> IO ()

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Sets the action function, which will be executed in each cycle

setThreadErrorHandler :: IO () -> Thread -> IO ()

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Sets the error handler. It is activated, when the action function will raise an exception.

startThread :: Thread -> IO ()

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Starts the thread.

stopThread :: Thread -> IO ()

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Stops the thread. If the thread itself wants to stop from within the action function, the current cycle will be executed till the end. So statements after this function will still be executed.

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