[Haskell] rawSystem unpredictable with signals

[John Goerzen]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:09:43PM +0200, Udo Stenzel wrote:
> >   1) rawSystem returns ExitSuccess
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >   2) rawSystem raises an IOError saying the child terminated with a
> >   signal
> > 
> > I am totally at a loss as to explain this difference in behavior.  I
> > would prefer it to choose option #2 always.
> 
> Could process #1 have caught SIGINT while process #2 didn't?  If so, GHC
> is not at fault, because wait() doesn't tell about caught signals.

Unlikely, I think.  Same process doing same things.

-- John