#7482: GHC.Event overwrites main IO managers hooks to RTS
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    Reporter:  AndreasVoellmy    |       Owner:                  
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:                  
   Component:  libraries/base    |     Version:  7.4.1           
    Keywords:  IO Manager, RTS   |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Comment(by AndreasVoellmy):

 Here is a proposal to fix this problem: remove 'new' from GHC.Event public
 interface. Then users can only use the built-in IO manager, and therefore
 the problem above will not arise. No projects on hackage use
 GHC.Event.new.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7482#comment:4>
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