From: Benedikt G. <Ben...@we...> - 2004-11-10 22:01:24
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Hi Daan, On Wednesday 10 November 2004 16:00, you wrote: DL> Benedikt Grundmann wrote: DL> DL> >Hello List, DL> > DL> >I just tried the Process example on my debian gnu linux (testing) laptop DL> >(intel centrino). Linux kernel version 2.6.7. DL> > DL> >wxgtk-2.4-config --version reports 2.4.2 (debian package) DL> >ghc --version reports 6.2.1 DL> > DL> >I'm using wxhaskell-0.8 compiled using --with-opengl. I get segmentation DL> >faults most of the time: DL> > DL> > DL> Hi Benedikt, DL> DL> The asynchronous process seemed to work well on windows, but since we DL> use it intensively DL> with Helium, we noticed that it sometimes crashes too :-( We still try DL> to debug this but it is DL> a hard one to solve due to the asynchronous nature. We have not tested DL> it on debian, but maybe DL> we should as it seems to occur at least at well-defined moments! DL> I did some more testing today: I could reproduce the same behaviour on my desktop machine (a 2.6 ghz pentium 4) running Debian GNU Linux (unstable bleeding edge). On both machines I could "sometimes" see it actually work roughly once every 20 tries. DL> Bottom line: the process feature has bugs.. and it won't get solved soon DL> as I am currently working DL> on other features (like printing). However, I would like to see it DL> debugged as it is a tremendously DL> useful feature and because we need to run Helium. DL> Well it's a *critical* part of an application I'm currently writing together with a colleque (part of my bachelor thesis in computer science). Implementation is still in it's infancy so I could switch to another programming language even though I *really* want to use haskell :-). Do you know wether it is a wxhaskell or a wxWidgets or wxGTK Problem? I'm willing to give it some more work / testing but not much as my time constraints to not permit that. Thanks again for your work, Cheers, Bene -- Benedikt Grundmann For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. --- (Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites) --- |