[Haskell-cafe] Re: Does readFile "/proc/mounts" hang for you?

David Fox wrote:

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:20 AM, David Fox mailto:ddssff@gmail.com> wrote:

I posted a bug about this (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2971) but its so odd I had to ask here. Using ghc 6.10.1, both readFile "/proc/mounts" and Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8.readFile "/proc/mounts" hang on an amd64 machine running Linux. Also, Data.ByteString.readFile "/proc/mounts" returns the empty string. Is this behavior present for others? On i386?

I can now confirm that this bug also affects the i386 architecture.

There was a more serious underlying bug, which is now fixed. Thanks to those who reported and investigated it. Cheers, Simon