Quoth Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi>:
| On 11.12 22:26, Donn Cave wrote:
| > Quoth Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi>:
| > | It seems that opening the same file multiple times (one writer
| > | and multiple readers) is not supported at least on *nix with
| > | GHC. I want to use one Handle to use append data till the
| > | end of the file while other Handles perform random access
| > | IO with seeks on the file.
| >
| > How is it not supported? What happens with something like this
...
| *** Exception: z: openFile: resource busy (file is locked)
Oh. Well, that's unfortunate, but at least I see it is documented.
I guess that explains why your solution uses unlockFile.
I suppose you might be able to use Posix.IO functions instead,
but that would probably be even more trouble than your work-around.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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