I cannot reproduce pretty much any claim made in this thread. Unless PIO
does not mean System.IO.Posix.
I run "mkfifo hello" to create a named pipe. Then I run this program to
keep trying to open for writing, non-blocking (without anyone at the
read end initially):
import System.Posix.IO
imp
Ah, thanks Bryan. I hadn't looked into it enough to realize that FDs are
just ints and not ForeignPtrs w/ finalizers.
Re: Donn's point. Well, yes, that would seem to be the case! But since I
think a linux bug is unlikely, I'm afraid that there's something else going
on here which I am not think
Quoth "Bryan O'Sullivan" ,
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Ryan Newton wrote:
>
>> FYI, lsof confirms that there are indeed many many open connections to the
>> same FIFO:
>>
>
> Like all of the lowest-level I/O functions, openFD just gives you back an
> integer, and the Fd type has no notion t
