On 11/29/10 6:36 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:05 PM, wren ng thornton<w...@freegeek.org> wrote:
So I've just started playing around with STM and -threaded programs and
I've run into a bug. The bug is similar to [1] except that the file in
question is a Posix FIFO instead of a Bluetooth device. Same behavior:
always errors with -threaded, but expected behavior when not -threaded
(i.e., blocks until another process opens the other end of the FIFO). GHC
version is 6.12.1.
Isn't that pretty normal?
The blocking for someone to open the other end is perfectly normal. The
fact that compiling with -threaded takes a perfectly working program and
makes it consistently crash I wouldn't call "normal".
N.B., the call to openFd in question is from the main thread and before
any STM or forkIO shenanigans.
Just retry if you get EINTR, that's what
throwErrnoIfMinus1 and friends are for:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/Foreign-C-Error.html#v%3AthrowErrnoIfRetryMayBlock
I'll see if I can make a workaround with that, but as I said: Simon's
already confirmed that this is a bug, I'm just looking for a ticket
number or a version where it's fixed.
--
Live well,
~wren
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