[xmonad] [process] Fixed asynchronous exception bugs in readProcess and readProcessWithExitCode

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 23:14:36 CET 2012


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 14:35, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) If an asynchronous exception was thrown to the
> stdout/stderr-read-thread it did not execute the putMVar anymore
> resulting in a dead-lock when takeMVar was executed.
>

Hah.  I knew something like this was in there; xmonad is hanging instead of
catching an exception or signal when the far end of a pipe (usually xmobar)
goes away.

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