RE: [Haskell-cafe] exitFailure under forkProcess

On 26 October 2004 22:29, John Goerzen wrote:

Hello,

I'm having a little weird situation here.

Whenever I call exitFailure under forkProcess, I get:

(progname): forkProcess: uncaught exception

Test program:

import System.Exit import System.Posix.Process main = forkProcess exitFailure

That's a bug, and I've just fixed it. The problem was that we weren't wrapping the child process in the usual default exception handler which catches ExitException and actually performs the exit. Cheers, Simon