On 1/10/07, Malcolm Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I'm pretty sure that most Haskell RTS implementations have a
finalizer attached to all file handles. Once the file handle is no
longer reachable from the program graph (even if its data has not been
fully consumed), the GC will
Taral wrote:
For a read-only
operation, this shouldn't matter, however on some platforms an open
file handle can prevent deletion of the file.
You'd be referring to Windows, then, where you can't rename or remove a
file if someone has opened it.
A partial defence against this is to pass
[ moving to haskell-café... ]
Norman Ramsey wrote:
There seems to be a misunderstanding here: readFile in
itself is not the
solution. readFile is defined thus:
readFile name= openFile name ReadMode = hGetContents
and the original code was this:
load fn = do
nr:
Sure, you can replace the openFile/hGetContents pair by readFile, but the
real problem is the presence of the hClose. Removing that will solve your
problem (but note that you now have no control over when the file is
actually closed).
Can I just leave it hanging and rely on the
