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diff --git a/libraries/base/Control/Concurrent.hs b/libraries/base/Control/Concurrent.hs
index 35248bfba3..1786c3ded3 100644
--- a/libraries/base/Control/Concurrent.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/Control/Concurrent.hs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
, MagicHash
, UnboxedTuples
, ScopedTypeVariables
+ , RankNTypes
#-}
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-deprecations #-}
-- kludge for the Control.Concurrent.QSem, Control.Concurrent.QSemN
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ module Control.Concurrent (
-- $boundthreads
rtsSupportsBoundThreads,
forkOS,
+ forkOSWithUnmask,
isCurrentThreadBound,
runInBoundThread,
runInUnboundThread,
@@ -180,7 +182,7 @@ attribute will block all other threads.
-}
--- | fork a thread and call the supplied function when the thread is about
+-- | Fork a thread and call the supplied function when the thread is about
-- to terminate, with an exception or a returned value. The function is
-- called with asynchronous exceptions masked.
--
@@ -316,6 +318,11 @@ forkOS action0
return tid
| otherwise = failNonThreaded
+-- | Like 'forkIOWithUnmask', but the child thread is a bound thread,
+-- as with 'forkOS'.
+forkOSWithUnmask :: ((forall a . IO a -> IO a) -> IO ()) -> IO ThreadId
+forkOSWithUnmask io = forkOS (io unsafeUnmask)
+
-- | Returns 'True' if the calling thread is /bound/, that is, if it is
-- safe to use foreign libraries that rely on thread-local state from the
-- calling thread.