#7773: Waiting on non-kqueue supported files on OS X ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: AndreasVoellmy | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: libraries/base Version: 7.7 | Keywords: Os: MacOS X | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Failure: Incorrect result at runtime | Blockedby: Blocking: | Related: ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Neither the old IO manager nor the new "parallel" IO manager properly handle waiting on files on Mac OS X when kqueue does not support the device type. PHO reported this on ghc-devs: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-March/000798.html. Here is the gist of it: the IO manager uses kqueue to wait on files on OS X. kqueue does not support all files. For example, on older versions of OS X (10.5.8) it cannot wait on tty devices and on even on 10.8.2 it cannot wait on /dev/random. Both the old and parallel IO managers suffered from the problem, but the consequences were slightly different. With the old IO manager the situation was treated as the file being ready, which would just cause the waiting thread to run again. The parallel IO manager changed things slightly and now it just throws an exception and terminates the program. So the behavior when this happens in the parallel IO manager is not acceptable. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7773 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler