Simon Marlow wrote:
There was a long thread about this a while back (subject
Blocking I/O
and FIFOs).
I didn't find it in the archives...
Try here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org/msg03235.ht
ml
unfortunately the archives at haskell.org aren't
In local.glasgow-haskell-bugs, you wrote:
Programs that read from a named pipe usually block until a
writer opens
the pipe and writes something to it. The following program,
main = putStr = readFile /tmp/p
(where /tmp/p refers to a named pipe) exhibits this behavour when
Simon Marlow wrote:
There was a long thread about this a while back (subject Blocking I/O
and FIFOs).
I didn't find it in the archives...
The conclusion was that the behaviour varies between OSs:
the behaviour Thomas described occurs on FreeBSD, but not Linux or
Solaris. POSIX appears to
In local.glasgow-haskell-bugs, you wrote:
Programs that read from a named pipe usually block until a writer opens
the pipe and writes something to it. The following program,
main = putStr = readFile /tmp/p
(where /tmp/p refers to a named pipe) exhibits this behavour when
compiled
Hi.
Programs that read from a named pipe usually block until a writer opens
the pipe and writes something to it. The following program,
main = putStr = readFile /tmp/p
(where /tmp/p refers to a named pipe) exhibits this behavour when
compiled with HBC or when run with runhugs, but *not*
