[Haskell-cafe] Ranges over Rational.

2012-02-14 Thread André Scholz
as used for Integers. The specification seems to nullify the difference between Rational and floating point types in this respect. I would consider this a, well, a mistake in the specification. Kind regards, André Scholz ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to terminate the process group of a processcreated with createProcess?

2012-01-12 Thread André Scholz
On 11.01.2012 at 23:08 Donn Cave wrote: Quoth Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com, ... terminateProcess passes on the semantics of kill(2); on SVID-compliant (and I think POSIX.1-compliant) systems, the negative of the process group leader's process ID is used to signal the process

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to terminate the process group of a process created with createProcess?

2012-01-12 Thread André Scholz
Hello, On 12.01.2012 at 17:00 Brandon Allbery wrote: I need to go look at the implementation of System.Process, though; the documentation strongly implies that (a) it already creates a process group, System.Process-1.1.0.0 introduces the new field create_group :: Bool in the datatype

[Haskell-cafe] How to terminate the process group of a process created with createProcess?

2012-01-11 Thread André Scholz
Hello, (on unix) creating a process A which spawns itself a subprocess B and terminating process A before it finishes leaves process B as a process on its own. This is because terminateProcess sends the sigterm signal to the process only and not to its process group. Is there a way to