[Haskell-cafe] ghc_ticker not checking return code?

[Jon Fairbairn]

Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> writes:

> I'd suspect it's mishandling the error return from a read(). Or not
> handling, but if the error it gets back is for some reason EAGAIN then it's
> kinda difficult to handle this sanely except by adding extra
> instrumentation to catch the loop.

If a selinux denial is producing EAGAIN, something is very
wrong. I doubt that that’s what’s happening. If I knew where to
go I could create a ticket…