[Haskell-cafe] fcntl locks, executeFile and threaded runtime

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Donn Cave <donn at avvanta.com> wrote:

> Question about the syscall trace -- in the second, threaded version,
>
> > [pid 11612] fcntl(7, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0,
> len=0}) = 0
> ...
> > [pid 11612] +++ exited with 0 +++
>
> ?? In the not threaded version, I don't see the child process exit - and
> wasn't expecting to, since it's supposed to have exec'd to /usr/bin/sleep.
>

You don't see it in the non-threaded one because the parent throws an
exception while setting the lock and exits first. The sleep is only 5
seconds, so the second one reaches waitForProcess and collects it (note
that the "parent: fail!" is a putStrLn, not an error) before exiting.

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