[Haskell-cafe] getChar + System.Cmd.system + threads causes hangups

[Einar Karttunen]

Hello

Using system or any variant of it from System.Process
seems broken in multithreaded environments. This
example will fail with and without -threaded.

When run the program will print hello: start and
then freeze. After pressing enter (the first getChar)
System.Cmd.system will complete, but without that
it will freeze for all eternity.

What is the best way to fix this? I could use System.Posix,
but that would lose windows portablity which is needed.


import Control.Concurrent
import System.Cmd

main = do forkIO (threadDelay 10  hello)
  getChar
  getChar

hello = do putStrLn hello: start
   system echo hello world!
   putStrLn hello: done


- Einar Karttunen
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] getChar + System.Cmd.system + threads causes hangups

[Einar Karttunen]

Here is a version that works fine:


myRawSystem cmd args = do 
(inP, outP, errP, pid) - runInteractiveProcess cmd args Nothing Nothing
hClose inP
os - pGetContents outP
es - pGetContents errP
ec - waitForProcess pid
case ec of
  ExitSuccess   - return ()
  ExitFailure e -
  do hPutStrLn stderr (Running process ++unwords (cmd:args)++ FAILED 
(++show e++))
 hPutStrLn stderr os
 hPutStrLn stderr es
 hPutStrLn stderr (Raising error...)
 fail Running external command failed

pGetContents h = do
mv - newEmptyMVar
let put [] = putMVar mv []
put xs = last xs `seq` putMVar mv xs
forkIO (hGetContents h = put)
takeMVar mv

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