[Haskell-cafe] GHC handling of signals

[Viktor Dukhovni]

On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 03:53:55PM +0200, Ben Franksen wrote:

> Apparently the GHC runtime does something like
> 
>    installHandler sigPIPE Ignore Nothing
> 
> This is not a complaint, I find the behavior quite reasonable and much 
> more predictable than the default (why should I not be able to catch 
> EPIPE and continue?).
> 
> The question is whether it is documented how the GHC runtime treats 
> signals and if yes where?

In the case of SIGPIPE, the relevant documentation can be found in:

    https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/exts/ffi.html?highlight=ffi#interruptible-foreign-calls

-- 
    Viktor.