On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky <golubov...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> This is probably about forkProcess rather than forkIO/forkOS, but why >> this limitation? > > That's a standard Unix limitation. A child process is forked with one > thread, so if the parent has multiple threads running, it's overwhelmingly > likely that the child will be unable to execute correctly.
One problem used to be that the I/O manager would get killed but Simon Marlow fixed that. I think we should support forking, with some caveats, so that we can daemonize processes. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
