21 Oct
2003
21 Oct
'03
9:09 a.m.
I've cc-ed to the libraries list - perhaps someone there could comment on the state of portable replacements for Posix functionality, especially for popen and friends? I seem to recall a very promising discussion about portable and flexible ways to start subprocesses a while ago - has that led to any concrete libraries?
Regarding processes, I made this proposal: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2003-May/000958.html but didn't get any further. 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). Cheers, Simon