[Haskell-cafe] exitFailure under forkProcess

[Simon Marlow]

On 26 October 2004 22:29, John Goerzen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a little weird situation here.
> 
> Whenever I call exitFailure under forkProcess, I get:
> 
> (progname): forkProcess: uncaught exception
> 
> Test program:
> 
> import System.Exit
> import System.Posix.Process
> main = forkProcess exitFailure

That's a bug, and I've just fixed it.  The problem was that we weren't
wrapping the child process in the usual default exception handler which
catches ExitException and actually performs the exit.

Cheers,
	Simon