[Hugs-users] No way to fork() ?

[Ross Paterson]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:48:38AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:12:45AM +0100, ross at soi.city.ac.uk wrote:
> > - System.Process is missing; the chief problem is Hugs's representation
> >   of handles.  Perhaps not insuperable.
> > - System.Posix.Process.forkProcess is probably approximately
> >   implementable, modulo problems with handles.
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit on what these problems are?

Hugs implements Handles on top of FILEs, so you have to worry about
buffering.  Most of it is probably possible, just not trivial.

> Actually, I am more interested in installing SIG_IGN for SIGPIPE.  (That
> is, tell the system to ignore that signal.)  That much should be doable,
> right?

Should be.  The higher-level System.Process seems more important, though.