#15363: Do some cleaning up of the testsuite driver -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: lantti | Owner: lantti Type: task | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 8.6.1 Component: Test Suite | Version: 8.4.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Phyx-): timeout.hs goes through great lengths to be able to reliably detect when all child processes exit using job groups. replacing this with the standard python process api will re-introduce threading issues we spent a great deal of time debugging so be careful with that. It also deals with quite a few corner cases with regards to how msys implements pipes. You would essentially have to rewrite it using ctypes because python's `os` package only provides process grouping for posix OSes. Before such a patch is accepted I'd like to see some evidence that it works correctly when the system is under heavy load. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15363#comment:10 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler