#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 andersk): Ugly but acceptable; I’m happy to come to a resolution on this issue, provided * The documentation clearly calls out that our encoding is byte-swapped from the standard one for historical reasons. * We might as well include the core dump bit as bit 15 for completeness. It’s useful for printing messages like `Segmentation fault (core dumped)`, and I don’t see a downside as long as we do it now. glibc, Perl, and Python all provide it as bit 7. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7229#comment:30 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler