[GHC] #1190: base:System.Posix.Signals is empty on Windows

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#1190: base:System.Posix.Signals is empty on Windows
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    Reporter:  igloo           |       Owner:         
        Type:  bug             |      Status:  new    
    Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  6.8    
   Component:  libraries/base  |     Version:  6.6    
    Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:         
  Difficulty:  Unknown         |    Testcase:         
Architecture:  Unknown         |          Os:  Unknown
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From http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2006-August/005762.html:

 __Neil Mitchell:``__

 Why is System.Posix.Signals defined in base on Windows, but entirely
 blank, while System.Posix.Process is defined in Unix?

 If this is a dependancy issue, then shouldn't
 System.Posix.Internals.Signals be in the base, and then unix export
 System.Posix.Signals, which is just a reexport of this?

 This issue is annoying because I'm trying to at least write null stubs
 for the functions so I can compile a program requiring unix on
 Windows. It doesn't help that Windows ships a version of Signals with
 an entirely different interface...

 __Simon Marlow:``__

 Good point.  I think this is mostly historical, System.Posix.Signals is
 required
 to bootstrap GHC, which is why it was originally in base (I think at one
 stage
 we bootstrapped using only base+haskell98).  It's too late to sort this
 out for
 GHC 6.6, but we'll do something about it after the release. (feel free to
 submit
 a patch if you get to it before us).

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