On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:14:02AM -0800, Sigbjorn Finne wrote:
I think that's a reasonable request, but the reason that it isn't in there already is that the Posix library implements just POSIX 1003.1a (1990), not also 1003.1b (1993), which is when the (so-called) real-time/POSIX.4 extensions (incl O_SYNC) were introduced.
I see.
Rather than patching the Posix library to include stuff like O_SYNC, I'd like to see a Haskell binding to the Single UNIX (aka Unix98) instead - it subsumes the POSIX.1 APIs (and you can get at the specs without having to pay the extortionate rates that IEEE charges). Feel free to contribute such a binding!
I'm afraid I will not. There is pretty huge number of functions to bind, and I'm afraid to miss some. Then I'm not wery good Haskeller. Moreover, I could not see the Single Unix features in the linux-2.2 (at least that nice O_DSYNC flag). Maybe they are presented in 2.4, but I have no plan to use it. Well, what is a position of the GHC maintainers about that? Max.