[darcs-devel] darcs patch: Use System.Process on Windows (and 3 more)

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:46:44PM +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote:
> Argh! I spoke too soon.  These patches make the external.pl script hang
> on Unix.  The problem seems to be that the patch switches from the
> bracket in the old IO module to the new Control.Exception.bracket.

The two brackest differ in what they are able to catch, since the two
catches differ.  IO.bracket (same as, I believe, System.IO.bracket) doesn't
catch asynchronous errors, I believe.  The semantics is confusing, to say
the least, and I've not got time to debug anything now.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net
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