Switch to the new operations for obtaining OS handles #348
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There is an effort to move some GHC-specific modules out of
base
. Candidates for such moving areGHC.IO.Handle.Types
andGHC.IO.Handle.Internals
. These modules are often used for obtaining operating-system handles (file descriptors, Windows handles) from Haskell handles. Such uses are also present in theprocess
package.There is a proposal to add dedicated operations for operating-system handle acquisition to
base
. A corresponding draft implementation can be found in GHC merge request !14732. The present pull request forprocess
changes the package to use those new operations.Note that this pull request changes the behavior of
System.Process.Common.mbFd
in two ways:withHandle
family of operations fromGHC.IO.Handle.Internals
but may not be what is desired.