Neil Mitchell wrote:
Why is System.Posix.Signals defined in base on Windows, but entirely blank, while System.Posix.Process is defined in Unix?
If this is a dependancy issue, then shouldn't System.Posix.Internals.Signals be in the base, and then unix export System.Posix.Signals, which is just a reexport of this?
This issue is annoying because I'm trying to at least write null stubs for the functions so I can compile a program requiring unix on Windows. It doesn't help that Windows ships a version of Signals with an entirely different interface...
Good point. I think this is mostly historical, System.Posix.Signals is required to bootstrap GHC, which is why it was originally in base (I think at one stage we bootstrapped using only base+haskell98). It's too late to sort this out for GHC 6.6, but we'll do something about it after the release. (feel free to submit a patch if you get to it before us). Cheers, Simon