cetin.sert: > Hi *^o^*, > > I am writing [1]a network manager as a replacement for some broken, > already existing knetworkmanager for a friend's computer. > > I was looking for some haskell libraries that provide access to wlan cards > but could not find any on hackage. Maybe I missed something. Currently my > tool is using linux the commands: modprobe, ifconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, > dhclient etc.. Can a library calling external stand-alone linux commands > be considered good enough as is? Or should one definitely write a wrapper > around a more low-level, stable, POSIX-compliant foreign library to access > and configure, control WLAN cards? I'd love to hear your comments.
Hmm. For the long run, using the C FFI is probably more robust (a few less points of failure). A binding to the shell commands will be cheaper and more cheerful. Go for it! -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe