How to detect if a program has been compiled using -threaded? - haskell

Question

I'm working on a Haskell daemon that uses POSIX fork/exec together with file locking mechanism. My experiments show that file locks aren't inherited during executeFile with -threaded runtime (see also this thread), no matter if I use +RTS -N or not. So I'd like to add a check to be sure that the daemon ins't compiled with -threaded. Is there a portable way to detect it?

Answer 1

There is a value in Control.Concurrent for this, for example:
module Main (main) where
import Control.Concurrent
main :: IO ()
main = print rtsSupportsBoundThreads
And test:
$ ghc -fforce-recomp Test.hs; ./Test
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Test.hs, Test.o )
Linking Test ...
False
$ ghc -fforce-recomp -threaded Test.hs; ./Test
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Test.hs, Test.o )
Linking Test ...
True
And it's C-part source code:
HsBool
rtsSupportsBoundThreads(void)
{
#if defined(THREADED_RTS)
return HS_BOOL_TRUE;
#else
return HS_BOOL_FALSE;
#endif
}

Answer 2

This is a dirty hack and might be not portable but I can confirm it works for ghc-7.6.3 on linux:
isThreaded :: IO (Maybe Bool)
isThreaded = do
tid <- forkIO $ threadDelay 1000000
yield
stat <- threadStatus tid
killThread tid
case stat of
ThreadBlocked BlockedOnMVar -> return (Just True)
ThreadBlocked BlockedOnOther -> return (Just False)
_ -> return Nothing
See BlockedOnOther docstring for details.