> > If I understand recent changes correctly, this is a > deliberate decision. The > > idea is that if you wanted to write a program like 'stty' > in Haskell, you'd > > be very disappointed if the terminal settings got switched > back the moment > > your Haskell program terminated. > > It's deliberate, but (AFAIK) not for those reasons. The idea is so > that "simple, stupid programs" do what the programmer expects (and > saving the list from lots of "my program doesn't get any input until > the user hits Return" questions). > > If you were writing "stty" in Haskell, you would presumably use the > PosixTTY functions directly.
GHC 6.2 will have slightly better behaviour in this regard. If the terminal settings are changed as a result of hSetBuffering, then they will be restored on exit. This still allows stty-type programs to be written, as long as you don't also call hSetBuffering on the same Handle. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe