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Run an action that is runnable in the IO monad within a time limit

The time limit is specified in microseconds, and is subject to the same sas timeout. Finally, the action to be run itself is passed. The result is an IO action, which is normally lifted with liftIO to be run in the same IO (see timeoutM). The action, when run, returns the resulting monadic value if it was run in time. Conceptually, one can think of this as running a local monad, perhaps a copy, in the IO monad; the effects of running in the IO monad are unavoidably irreversible, but the resulting monadic value can be optionally ignored, in which case it is not evaluated in the parent monad and no effects are present in the outer layers of the monad.

Equivalent to timeoutM, but the result is the same monad, making passing the data needed to run the monad unnecessary

If the void action runs in time, it is run and True is returned; otherwise False is returned when running the action in time does not succeed

For example, to run a void action within one second, one might write

succeeded <- timeoutVoid

The effects of "action" will be fully executed if succeeded is True; if succeeded is False, the action could not run in time, and only global IO actions that were performed while the local monad was being evaluated will be run.