[xmonad] Strange spawnPipe error

Spencer Janssen spencerjanssen at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 19:41:59 EST 2009


On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:25:40AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > * On Sunday, December 27 2009, Viktor Deryagin wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
> > ...
> >>> What is your unix package version?
> >>
> >> What is "unix package"? Sorry for stupid question :)
> >
> > $ ghc-pkg list unix
> >
> > I'm not sure how to help with the rest of this troubleshooting, however.
> 
> Nevermind, I've found the bug.  spawnPipe changed from forkProcess to
> xfork.  xfork contains createSession, but spawnPipe also kept its own,
> so there're two in the code path now.  The latter should be removed.

Thanks for tracking this down, it was my mistake when adding xfork.  I've
pushed a patch that fixes the issue.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen


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