2008/12/11 Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>:
>
> I had it in mind too, but I didn't dare to name it. :-)
>
> On NixOS, the build daemon ends up waiting until the "sleep 999"
> terminate, which is annoying, so we have applied Neil's patch that uses
> "read" instead of "sleep":
>
>
> https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/interpreters/guile/popen-zombie.patch
>
> For a discussion, see:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/7078
FWIW, I do plan to get back to this sometime, hopefully "soon"!
Neil
