Copyright	(c) The University of Glasgow 2007
License	BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
Maintainer	libraries@haskell.org
Stability	experimental
Portability	non-portable
Safe Haskell	Safe
Language	Haskell98

System.Timeout.Lifted

Description

Attach a timeout event to monadic computations which are instances of MonadBaseControl.

Synopsis

Documentation

timeout :: MonadBaseControl IO m => Int -> m a -> m (Maybe a) Source #

Generalized version of timeout.

Note that when the given computation times out any side effects of m are discarded. When the computation completes within the given time the side-effects are restored on return.