Simon, Can the documentation for forkProcess be fixed then? Instead of "forkProcess comes with a giant warning..." it could say: "forkProcess is not supported by GHC in multicore setting".
PS I have created ticket #4027 with more detailed proposal. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28/04/2010 03:02, Dimitry Golubovsky wrote: >> this limitation? rawSystem works fine from within a thread started by >> forkIO, but why cannot I use forkProcess? > > No good reason, other than it's tremendously difficult to implement. Thank you. -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
