> As I understand it, programs compiled with GHC currently use MSYS for all > I/O operations, resulting in all kinds of strange behaviour in corner cases. > (E.g., if you use System.Directory and ask whether "C:\\" is a directory, it > says no, yet you can read the contents of that directory.) I would have > thought that calling the Win32 API directly would probably fix most of these > minor glitches. Is that what this package is intending to do?
Yes. When Simon adds the new Handle API to GHC i will add support for creating Haskell handles that will be implemented internally with Windows handles and call WinAPI functions. The current winio package contains mostly low-level functions that directly expose Windows handles which is useful for writing server code etc. Eventually when the library is stable i would prefer if it becomes part of GHC's libraries (or a new default Haskell I/O library for all operating systems). Regards, Felix _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
