RE: POpen, opening lots of processes

Tomasz Zielonka writes:

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I had a similar problem, and finally I created my own solution that doesn't leave zombies and doesn't block when the launched process writes too much to stderr.

Pretty neat, I've got an application idea for that code! Couldn't it be include in the standard libraries? Anyway, thanks for posting it.

There is an outstanding proposal for a System.Process library: http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/System.Process.html This is currently stalled because we need a non-blocking implementation of getProcessStatus (which is in the pipeline). Something akin to Tomasz's launch could also be included here. Cheers, Simon