[Haskell-cafe] timeout and waitForProcess

2007-11-20 Thread Tim Bauer
Does anyone know if the new System.Timeout.timeout combinator can wakeup from System.Process.waitForProcess? I have not been able to make this work, and it appears as though the timeout exception is thrown only after waitForProcess returns normally (if it ever does). I am using Windows and GHC

Re: [Haskell-cafe] timeout and waitForProcess

2007-11-20 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Tim Bauer wrote: Does anyone know if the new System.Timeout.timeout combinator can wakeup from System.Process.waitForProcess? No, this is expected behaviour per the documentation: The technique works very well for computations executing inside of the Haskell runtime system, but it doesn't