On Jun 24, 2009, at 02:27 , Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Sure - but it hurts more when in some environments you get away with it and others you don't.
You'll still have that though, it'll just be a different set of environments. The next failure mode after this one is writing more than _PIPE_BUF down ih; you'll deadlock in the write when in blocking mode, in non-blocking mode it depends on how the runtime handles partial writes.
I'd hope for consistency across the GHC runtimes though.
You can hope, but I get the impression blocking/non-blocking maps to threaded/non-threaded respectively in which case all bets are off. (Unless the ghc runtime guarantees some specific behavior here.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH