andrewcoppin: > Don Stewart wrote: > >Hey Andrew, > > > >What are you trying to do? Read and write to the same file (if so, you > >need to use strict IO), or are you trying something sneakier? > > > > I have a long-running Haskell program that writes status information to > a log file. I'd like to be able to open and read that log file before > the program has actually terminated. I have a similar program written in > Tcl that allows me to do this, since apparently the Tcl interpretter > doesn't lock output files for exclusive access. Haskell, however, does. > (This seems to be the stipulated behaviour as per the Report.) If > there's an easy way to change this, it would be useful...
Did you open the file in ReadWriteMode ? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe