[Haskell-cafe] haskell and releasing resources

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Tue Feb 6 19:05:37 EST 2007


mail:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 06.02.2007, 15:56 +0100 schrieb Fawzi Mohamed:
> > I am replying to myself, but anyway with it seems (from the  
> > documentation) that
> > 
> >      forkIO (do{ waitForProcess pid; return () })
> > 
> > is the best solution, and does not seem to lead to wasted resources.
> 
> This does not work for me. According to strace, the spawned process is
> in a blocking write, the haskell process is in a blocking waitpid, and I
> am sure that the program would consume all output.
> 

Any difference with -threaded ?

--Don


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