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(sorry, Thomas, if you get this message twice) Thomas Bevan wrote: > I've written the programme below. > > The lircLoop should never terminate. Unfortunately it does. Worse, no error > messages are generated. > Not even the final line "Closing down" is printed. > > How is this possible? I couldn't find the Hmpf.Fork module you're using, so I couldn't test this. However, one possibility is that program receives a signal that is neither handled or ignored. This is the case for SIGPIPE [1]. You can strace your program to find out whether that's the case. System.Posix.Process provides facilities for installing your own signal handlers. HTH, Bertram [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1619 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
