RE: more on GHC 6.4 Debian packages

On 28 July 2005 22:42, Ian Lynagh wrote:
However, the timeout program tickles known bugs in Linux 2.4 on hppa (and possibly unknown bugs on ia64, as discussed briefly on ghc-cvs).
I'd still like to get your souped-up timeout program into CVS. Would you like to post it? Cheers, Simon

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:27:08PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 28 July 2005 22:42, Ian Lynagh wrote:
However, the timeout program tickles known bugs in Linux 2.4 on hppa (and possibly unknown bugs on ia64, as discussed briefly on ghc-cvs).
I'd still like to get your souped-up timeout program into CVS. Would you like to post it?
Here's what I've currently got. I suspect the second forkIO should really be forkOS, but it might not be necessary at all on non-buggy systems (in which case the code can be simplified a bit). Thanks Ian
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