Re: [Haskell-cafe] I/O system brokenness with named pipes

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 11, 2008, at 6:33 , Don Stewart wrote:

But I can't use writeFile to write data to it.  Worse, it returns:

*** Exception: /tmp/bakroller.zD0xHj/fifo: openFile: does not exist
    (No such device or address)

Hmm, I can get this to work, but only if I have another process  
waiting
on the pipe already:

Yep; that's one of the tricky parts of FIFOs.  If you don't have the  
read side *always* open, it behaves very nonintuitively.  (But with  
the read side always open, you will never receive an EOF.)

This has nothing to do with Haskell; it's just the way FIFOs work.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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