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diff --git a/doc/bugs/haskell-dbus_problems_on_OSX___40__or_this_a_general_problem__41__.mdwn b/doc/bugs/haskell-dbus_problems_on_OSX___40__or_this_a_general_problem__41__.mdwn index 4a05080eb..7299d90e4 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/haskell-dbus_problems_on_OSX___40__or_this_a_general_problem__41__.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/haskell-dbus_problems_on_OSX___40__or_this_a_general_problem__41__.mdwn @@ -98,3 +98,12 @@ Hope the above isn't too random of bug/issue report. ---- going through <http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/network/2.3.0.14/doc/html/Network-Socket.html> shows that getPeerCred is only available on systems where SO_PEERCRED is supported, *sigh* OSX isn't supported and thus haskell-dbus is broken. Apparently getpeerid is more portable but it isnt supported in the network package. It looks like dbus support on OSX isn't really going to work too well till haskell-dbus gets fixed on OSX (or BSD?) + +> Does OSX acually come with dbus by default, and can you +> use something like `dbus-monitor` to see events when +> plugging in removable drives? If so, this might be worth spending time +> on. +> +> Currently though, dbus is not supposed to be built on non-Linux systems. +> (Well, it might work on Freebsd or something, but I've not tried it.) +> I've fixed the cabal file to only enable it on Linux. |