[Haskell-cafe] Execution of external command

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Duncan,

Thursday, December 13, 2007, 5:38:24 PM, you wrote:

> Yep, that'll work.

Spencer Janssen added that i should use waitForProcess - otherwise on
unix it will leave a zombie

Yitzchak, Duncan, gwern and Spencer. thank you very much for all your
answers, i'm sure that i'll have much longer learning curve without
your help!

> The Cabal code has to work with ghc-6.2 - 6.8, hugs, nhc98 and jhc. It
> cannot use threads.

you've complained that there is no such functionality in std libs. may
be it's worth making new hackage library, smth like Process?


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com