Quoth "Serge D. Mechveliani" <mech...@botik.ru>,
[ ... why in Haskell instead of FFI ... ]
> Because it is a direct and the simplest approach. Why does one need a
> foreign language, if all the needed functions are in the standard
> Haskell library?
The GHC Haskell library makes some compromises with normal I/O
functionality for the sake of its runtime thread system. As
difficult as named pipes can be in any case, they can be even
trickier in GHC Haskell for this reason. I didn't suggest an
FFI approach myself, in my previous follow-up, only because
if you haven't worked with the FFI it's a significant initial
investment, but I believe it's what I would do. (If I were
somehow compelled to used named pipes.)
Donn
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