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Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Wed Feb 26 04:53:50 EST 2003


> I'm now `GHC.Conc.forkProcess`ing only from the initial 
> thread, and all   
> seems well.  Thanks for the suggestion!
>  
> Any idea when `forkProcess` might get fixed?  Don't hurry on my
> account; I'm just curious.

There's a comment in the code from Sigbjorn who tried to fix it and was
unsuccessful, so it's probably a non-trivial fix.  I'll take a look next
time I'm in the area, unless it's a complete show-stopper for anyone.

Cheers,
	Simon



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