From: David Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are handles garbage-collected? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:51:34 -0400
> Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes: > > > I would not be surprised if relying on GC to close open files would > > be generally considered kosher in a few years - in cases when it has > > little visible effects outside, i.e. excluding network connections, > > but including reading configuration files. > > One of the goals of ReiserFS, if I recall correctly, is to create a > filesystem API that doesn't involve file handles. I wonder how far one > could get without explicitly dealing with file handles outside of the IO > library implementation. > -- > David Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/> > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe