POpen, opening lots of processes

[Simon Marlow]

> Tomasz Zielonka <t.zielonka at zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl> writes:
> 
> > I had a similar problem, and finally I created my own
> > solution that doesn't leave zombies and doesn't block when
> > the launched process writes too much to stderr.
> 
> Pretty neat, I've got an application idea for that code!
> Couldn't it be include in the standard libraries?  Anyway,
> thanks for posting it.

There is an outstanding proposal for a System.Process library:

http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/System.Process.html

This is currently stalled because we need a non-blocking implementation
of getProcessStatus (which is in the pipeline).  Something akin to
Tomasz's launch could also be included here.

Cheers,
	Simon