[Haskell-cafe] createProcess running non-existent programs

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 16:28:50 CEST 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Alexander Kjeldaas <
alexander.kjeldaas at gmail.com> wrote:

> This isn't that hard - a pipe shouldn't be needed anymore.  Just require a
> post-2003 glibc.
>

So, we are desupporting the *BSDs and OS X (and Solaris etc.) now?  glibc
is only used on Linux and the Hurd (and debian kfreebsd, if that hasn't
fallen on its face yet).

POSIX has some new spawn-type calls, btw, but I don't know how widely
implemented they are or how buggy they are.

-- 
brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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