Simon Marlow authored Dec 11, 2017 and Ben Gamari committed Dec 11, 2017

open() can sometimes take a long time, for example on NFS or FUSE
filesystems.  We recently had a case where open() was taking multiple
seconds to return for a (presumably overloaded) FUSE filesystem, which
blocked GC and caused severe issues.

Test Plan: validate

Reviewers: niteria, bgamari, nh2, hvr, erikd

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie, carter

GHC Trac Issues: #13296

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4239