base:System.Posix.Signals is empty on Windows

From http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2006-August/005762.html:

Neil Mitchell:``

Why is System.Posix.Signals defined in base on Windows, but entirely blank, while System.Posix.Process is defined in Unix?

If this is a dependancy issue, then shouldn't System.Posix.Internals.Signals be in the base, and then unix export System.Posix.Signals, which is just a reexport of this?

This issue is annoying because I'm trying to at least write null stubs for the functions so I can compile a program requiring unix on Windows. It doesn't help that Windows ships a version of Signals with an entirely different interface...

Simon Marlow:\

Good point. I think this is mostly historical, System.Posix.Signals is required to bootstrap GHC, which is why it was originally in base (I think at one stage we bootstrapped using only base+haskell98). It's too late to sort this out for GHC 6.6, but we'll do something about it after the release. (feel free to submit a patch if you get to it before us).

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Version	6.6
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
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