[Haskell-cafe] runInteractiveCommand dying uncatchably?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 1, 2008, at 13:39 , Evan Martin wrote:

> If I run the following program, it never prints "done".  If I
> uncomment the commented line, it does.

The exception it's getting is a UNIX signal (SIGPIPE), whose default  
action if not caught is to silently kill the process.  Establish a  
signal handler for sigPIPE, or ignore it (which will silently convert  
it to an error EPIPE which will raise a normal I/O exception).

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