On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 04:17:31PM +0100, MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:

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There is a portable System.Process library here:

On that note, perhaps all signals on unix should be set to ignore, so if you are writing cross platform code you don't have to do special stuff with say sigPIPE for example

Not all signals, SIGPIPE is a special case though, it really should default to ignore, but changing it would have broken many unix utilities when signals were first introduced. I don't want to silently eat segfaults for instance. I think setting sigpipe to ignore would be a good thing to do in the common RTS. none of the other signals need to be mucked with i think.... I made a plea a while ago to document these platform issues, status of SIGPIPE, whether setlocale has already been called, whether SIGTIME or the posix real-time signals are available to the app or are taken up by the RTS. Seems like this info should be somewhere in the ghc manual... John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈