Sven Panne wrote/a ecrit/skrev:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > Personally, I'd like to see some equivalent of the C system call
> > select(2) in GHC's socket library; [...]
>
> About a year ago this has been discussed, but the implementation has
> somehow vanished from GHC's sources. Strange...
>
> http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mail-www/glasgow-haskell-bugs/msg01147.html
I'm happy to see my old plea reanimated.
It interesting to note that now, a year later, the situation hasn't
improved much. It seems most everybody agrees that lack of access to
system libraries makes it impossible to employ Haskell for certain
tasks. The various FFIs promises to help out here, but correct me if
I'm wrong, but it seems that _none_ of the existing FFIs would help
here, as support for select depends on the implemention of Haskell
primitives, such as Handle.
Regads,
Tommy
