#7229: Detecting if a process was killed by a signal is impossible --------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: benmachine | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: libraries/process | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: --------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by duncan): What would `exitWith (ExitTerminated signal)` mean on Windows? Having the abstract `ExitStatus` type as Simon and I proposed would not have that issue, since it's only for the reading side, not the throwing side, and on Windows can always return Nothing. My view is still that using a structured type is a lot nicer than using a bit twiddling encoding. Related to this is that we want an extra `CreateProcess` option to do the WCE automatically. We still have the mad situation that System.Cmd can mask ctl-c for us, but System.Process lacks that feature. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7229#comment:22 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler