#4248: Poor error message when openFile fails to open named pipe
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Reporter: Khudyakov | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.2
Component: libraries/base | Version: 6.12.3
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Comment(by simonmar):
Yes, I read the man page too. What I was wondering was whether GHC's
behaviour of always opening files in non-blocking mode might not be what
you want when opening a FIFO, and if that's the case, should we
* provide a way to open the file in blocking mode instead, or
* try to do it automatically
In any case, we should at least document the behaviour (but describing
this obscure corner-case in such a prominent place as the documentation
for `openFile` might look a bit strange, I'm not sure what to do about
that.)
I don't have any strong feelings about this. Somebody tell me what to do
:-)
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