id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
5796	Runtime caught in an infinite loop	lpsmith		"Triggering this bug seems a little fragile;  but the program and method I've attached triggers the bug every time for me.   It is minimal-ish, I certainly have cut it down a lot,  and it perhaps could be made even smaller,  but a lot of seemingly irrelevant changes to the file will fail to trigger the bug. 

{{{
$ cabal configure && cabal build
$ ./dist/build/deadlock/deadlock
}}}

And then edit the file and change the 1 to some other value,  like 2.  Configurator will reload the file within a second,  and then I see that the thread that periodically writes something to standard out stops working,  and that CPU usage goes to 100%,  and that I can no longer type something in and have the program echo it back to me.

GHC-7.0.3 has no problem running this program."	bug	closed	normal		Runtime System	7.4.1-rc1	duplicate			Linux	x86_64 (amd64)	Runtime crash