22 Oct
2003
22 Oct
'03
4:27 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:24:28AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
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).
*mumbl* libevent *mumbl*
I checked libevent, and it doesn't support wait() events. It would be great if it did...
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