Dynamic and persistent data storage

2000-06-12 Thread trb
The ghc documentation for the Dynamic library says: "Examples where this library may come in handy (dynamic types, really - hopefully the library provided here will suffice) are: persistent programming, ..." ^^ ^^^ I would like

Re: Dynamic and persistent data storage

2000-06-12 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:42:16 +1000 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: To do this would require several things the current Dynamic library lacks: [...] I think it's much harder. How would you store and restore actual data? It depends on its real type, and for many types it's

RE: Posix.FileStatus: st_rdev from struct stat is missing

2000-06-12 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
None of these are POSIX supported (same with st_blksize.) --sigbjorn Sven Panne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: The subject says all. st_blocks is missing, too. But I'm unsure about versionitis here, so could some POSIX guru enlighten us on those fields? Are

Re: Posix.FileStatus: st_rdev from struct stat is missing

2000-06-12 Thread Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:36:33 -0700, Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] pisze: None of these are POSIX supported (same with st_blksize.) Ah. Sorry if I asked this before, but I could not find the answer now: are POSIX specifications freely available somewhere? It would be nice to have module(s)

RE: Posix.FileStatus: st_rdev from struct stat is missing

2000-06-12 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if I asked this before, but I could not find the answer now: are POSIX specifications freely available somewhere? The last time I looked, you had to pay IEEE in order to have them send you a copy. Or get Donald Lewine's O'Reilly book on Posix.1, it's