select() failure

[Volker Stolz]

In local.glasgow-haskell-bugs, you wrote:
> It sure would simplify my program if I could fork a process and not have
> auxiliary threads persist in the child.  Could this option be provided by
> GHC RTS in a semantically sound way?

On a "recent" GHC you can try 'forkProcess[Prim]':
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/base/GHC.Conc.html#forkProcessPrim
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