Re: GHC 7.2.2 RC 1

2011-11-10 Thread Nathan Howell
Any chance #5421 (<> in withMVar (reproducible, but with large test case) could be backported to 7.2.2? -n On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Ian Lynagh wrote: > 7.2.2 will be a minimal bugfix release, fixing only bugs that cannot be > worked around. Please let us know if you find any showstoppers

Re: sendWakeup bug #5553

2011-11-10 Thread Johan Tibell
Hi Bit, On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Bit Connor wrote: > Here's a bug I submitted 4 weeks ago, and there hasn't been much > activity or responses regarding it since then: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5553 > > It causes the error message: > >ghc_sendWakeup_bug: sendWakeu

sendWakeup bug #5553

2011-11-10 Thread Bit Connor
Here's a bug I submitted 4 weeks ago, and there hasn't been much activity or responses regarding it since then: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5553 It causes the error message: ghc_sendWakeup_bug: sendWakeup: invalid argument (Bad file descriptor) It would be great if someone co

Re: behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

2011-11-10 Thread John Millikin
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 03:28, Simon Marlow wrote: > I've done a search/replace and called it RawFilePath.  Ok? Fantastic, thank you very much. ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/list

Re: behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

2011-11-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10/11/2011 09:28, Max Bolingbroke wrote: Is there any consensus about what to do here? My take is that we should move back to lone surrogates. This: 1. Recovers the roundtrip property, which we appear to believe is essential 2. Removes all the weird problems I outlined earlier that can

Re: behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

2011-11-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09/11/2011 16:42, John Millikin wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 08:04, Simon Marlow wrote: Ok, I spent most of today adding ByteString alternatives for all of the functions in System.Posix that use FilePath or environment strings. The Haddocks for my augmented unix package are here: http://c

Re: behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

2011-11-10 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 9 November 2011 16:29, Simon Marlow wrote: > Ok, so since we need something like > >  makePrintable :: FilePath -> String > > arguably we might as well make that do the locale decoding.  That's > certainly a good point... You could, but getArgs :: IO [String], not :: IO [FilePath]. And locale-

Re: behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

2011-11-10 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 10 November 2011 00:17, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 03:58:47PM +, Max Bolingbroke wrote: >> >> (Note that the above outlined problems are problems in the current >> implementation too > > Then the proposal seems to me to be strictly better than the current > system. Under bo