On 2009 Jan 14, at 9:02, Manlio Perillo wrote:
This is of course a personal opinion, but I think the interface of:
fileAccess :: FilePath -> Bool -> Bool -> Bool -> IO Bool
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/unix/System-Posix-Files.html#v :fileAccess

is not very good.


The underlying system call access() is strongly disrecommended, so it's not really worth a better interface.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected]
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