I tried your example on 6.12.3 and it worked fine for me (Windows 7).
Ryan Yates On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Adolfo Builes <builes.ado...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Hi All: > > I have been trying to use System.timeout in windows, but for some > reason it doesn't work, a concrete example is: > > import Network.HTTP > import System.Timeout > > main = do > rsp <- timeout 10000000 $ simpleHTTP $ getRequest "http://10.1.2.3"; > case rsp of > Just rsp -> print $ show rsp > Nothing -> error "Nothing" > > In this case I would expect to receive "Nothing" after 10 seconds, but > it ignores the timeout function. > > I'm compiling with -threaded, but it does not work either, I'm using ghc > 6.12.2. > > Does someone know what could be going wrong ? > > Thanks ! > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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