System.Process

[Simon Marlow]

On 07 July 2004 22:59, Peter Simons wrote:

> I was wondering what the state of the System.Process module
> described on
> 
>   http://haskell.org/hawiki/ExternalCommands
> 
> is?
> 
> I have tried to use the various POpen-like implementations
> out there, but _none_ of them works with the most current
> GHC. Is there any way to communicate with external programs
> at the moment? Posix-only would be suffice at the moment.

I posted code with POSIX & Windows versions recently:

  http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/libraries/2004-June/002265.html

It's nearly finished, I hope to get it into GHC 6.4.

You need to compile with -threaded in order to get a non-blocking
waitForProcess.

Cheers,
	Simon