On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:24:10PM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: > > Yes, that's true, a nonexisting file name should cause it to terminate > before output is complete, I guess. It's slightly irrelevant, though, > because the problem isn't the laziness in Haskell, but the laziness in > the operating system in the form of buffering of output.
This kind of buffering is performed in user-space, and not by the operating system. In this case it is GHC's implementation of Handles. Most other language implementations also use this technique. Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
