I can't repeat this, it works here: *Main> test1 ExitSuccess *Main> test2 Just ExitSuccess (after changing /usr/bin/sleep to /bin/sleep). The only thing I can think of is that you somehow have a SIGCHLD handler that calls wait(), but I don't see where that can be happening. GHC doesn't have any other mechanism for calling wait(), so I don't understand how the zombies are disappearing before waitForProcess is called. Maybe run it through strace and send us the output? Cheers, Simon On 26 October 2004 19:00, Peter Simons wrote:

Neither of these functions returns the return code of the external process as promised:

import System.IO hiding ( catch, try ) import System.Process import Control.Concurrent

sleep :: Int -> IO () sleep n = threadDelay (abs(n) * 1000000)

test1 :: IO () test1 = do (_,_,_, pid) <- runInteractiveProcess "/usr/bin/sleep" ["1"] Nothing Nothing sleep 5 rc <- waitForProcess pid print rc

-- *Main> test1 -- *** Exception: waitForProcess: does not exist (No child processes)

test2 :: IO () test2 = do (_,_,_, pid) <- runInteractiveProcess "/usr/bin/sleep" ["1"] Nothing Nothing sleep 5 rc <- getProcessExitCode pid print rc

-- *Main> test2 -- Nothing

I'm using the ghc from CVS-HEAD on Linux/x86.

Peter

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