{- pg-harness, REST service for creating temporary PostgreSQL databases. Copyright (C) 2014, 2015 Bardur Arantsson This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see . -} module PgHarness.Mutex ( mkMutex ) where import Control.Exception (bracket_) import Control.Concurrent.QSem (newQSem, waitQSem, signalQSem) -- Creates a mutex based on semaphores. The mutex takes the form a -- function which can be called with an IO action to perform that -- action in a critical section. mkMutex :: IO (IO a -> IO a) mkMutex = do mutex <- newQSem 1 return $ \a -> bracket_ (waitQSem mutex) (signalQSem mutex) a