Re: Calling an external command from a Haskell program

In local.libraries, you wrote:

The sticking point is that GHC needs a thread-safe wait() implementation, which means some hacking in the scheduler (there isn't even a good way to do this portably, because select() doesn't let you wait for process termination).

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