[GHC] #7229: Detecting if a process was killed by a signal is impossible

[GHC]

#7229: Detecting if a process was killed by a signal is impossible
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    Reporter:  benmachine         |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug                |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  high               |   Milestone:  7.6.2           
   Component:  libraries/process  |     Version:                  
    Keywords:                     |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple   |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown            |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                     |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                     |  
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Comment(by andersk):

 Waah… that’s going to confuse anyone who knows that the real encoding is
 `(exit code << 8) + signal` (which, say, Perl forces you to learn).  If
 that’s what we end up with, I guess that difference ought to be noted in
 the documentation.

 I’m not sure I see the problem with an extra constructor that’s unused on
 non-Unix, but other than that I don’t really have anything else to
 propose.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7229#comment:7>
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