| Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 2001 |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
| Stability | experimental |
| Portability | non-portable (concurrency) |
| Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Control.Concurrent.Chan
Description
Unbounded channels.
The channels are implemented with MVars and therefore inherit all the
caveats that apply to MVars (possibility of races, deadlocks etc). The
stm (software transactional memory) library has a more robust implementation
of channels called TChans.
The Chan type
Chan is an abstract type representing an unbounded FIFO channel.
Operations
dupChan :: Chan a -> IO (Chan a) #
Duplicate a Chan: the duplicate channel begins empty, but data written to
either channel from then on will be available from both. Hence this creates
a kind of broadcast channel, where data written by anyone is seen by
everyone else.
(Note that a duplicated channel is not equal to its original.
So: fmap (c /=) $ dupChan c returns True for all c.)
unGetChan :: Chan a -> a -> IO () #
Deprecated: if you need this operation, use Control.Concurrent.STM.TChan instead. See http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4154 for details
Put a data item back onto a channel, where it will be the next item read.
isEmptyChan :: Chan a -> IO Bool #
Deprecated: if you need this operation, use Control.Concurrent.STM.TChan instead. See http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4154 for details
Stream interface
getChanContents :: Chan a -> IO [a] #
Return a lazy list representing the contents of the supplied
Chan, much like hGetContents.
writeList2Chan :: Chan a -> [a] -> IO () #
Write an entire list of items to a Chan.