... OK it was a bug in 3.11.0, which is now corrected in 3.11.1

On Jul 20, 1:14 pm, Ricky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using OCaml 3.11 on Mac OS X leopard and linux (debian, 2.6.29).
>
> Here's my problem: this small ocaml programme here below...
>
> Thread.delay 0.3;;
> Printf.printf "exit status = %d\n" (Sys.command "ls");;
>
> ...has a very different behavior on OS X and on Linux !
>
> compile command: ocamlopt -thread unix.cmxa threads.cmxa small_prog.ml
>
> The Thread.delay is here just to make sure the Threads library is
> linked.
>
> This programme works fine on Linux, prints directory listing and then
> prints "exit status = 0".
> But on OS X, the Sys.command exits and the programme only prints "exit
> status = 127".
> execv functions have the same issue.
>
> If I remove the call to the Threads library, it works as expected on
> OS X.
>
> I know it's supposed to be evil to mix up threads and processes, I
> just need to execute an external programme from a multi-threaded
> programme.
>
> Any idea?

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