On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:52 -0800, Donn Cave wrote: > Of course there's a risk that the authors of ghc may notice that > we're doing this and come up with a way to thwart it, but it seems > to me that between interfering with legitimate applications and not > working reliably anyway, there'd be a case for letting go of this > notion altogether.
Except that it is specified to work this way in the Haskell Report. Instead of changing the semantics of the standard libraries what you want is a back door to allow the alternative semantics that you want. Even better would be to provide a supported api for opening files without locking. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
