[xmonad] Strange spawnPipe error

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Sun Dec 27 01:19:37 EST 2009


On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 06:41:59PM -0600, Spencer Janssen wrote:
> 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.

Have you actually pushed this yet?  I don't get any patches when doing
a darcs pull.

-Brent


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