11 Nov
2010
11 Nov
'10
10:32 p.m.
Excerpts from Donn Cave's message of Thu Nov 11 17:07:20 -0500 2010:
ghc: 6.12.1 linux: 2.6.32 ncurses: 5.7
Someone probably should. It's tempting to conclude that the bug is in ncurses, and perhaps it is, and maybe there's nothing to be done about it anyway, but a language runtime that's spewing SIGALRMs is going to crash into this kind of thing a lot. I could comment a couple of other cases to the ticket that I've seen here or on Haskell-cafe.
I was under the impression we fixed this: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/850 That is, we should be using SIGVTALRM, not SIGALRM, these days, except under certain conditions when your operating system doesn't support the proper timer (which Linux most assuredly does). Edward