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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
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Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell

by Simon Marlow
July 2013
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
8h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 15. Debugging, Tuning, and Interfacing with Foreign Code

Debugging Concurrent Programs

In this section, I’ve collected a few tricks and techniques that you might find useful when debugging Concurrent Haskell programs.

Inspecting the Status of a Thread

The threadStatus function (from GHC.Conc) returns the current state of a thread:

threadStatus :: ThreadId -> IO ThreadStatus

Here, ThreadStatus is defined as follows:

data ThreadStatus
  = ThreadRunning                    -- 1
  | ThreadFinished                   -- 2
  | ThreadBlocked  BlockReason       -- 3
  | ThreadDied                       -- 4
  deriving (Eq, Ord, Show)
1

The thread is currently running (or runnable).

2

The thread has finished.

3

The thread is blocked (the BlockReason type is explained shortly).

4

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