[Haskell-cafe] createProcess running non-existent programs

[Andrew Cowie]

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 23:18 -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:
> Yes, I ran into the same thing a while back.  The problem is that the
> subprocess has already been forked off before it runs exec() and finds
> out the file doesn't exist.

Given how astonishingly common it is to pass an invalid executable name
and/or path, wouldn't it be worth doing a quick probe to see if the file
exists before createProcess actually forks?

[It's not like the effort the OS is going to do for the stat is going to
be thrown away; whether that call pulls it up off of disk or the one
after the fork that exec will do doesn't matter]

AfC
Sydney

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