In local.glasgow-haskell-users, you wrote:

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It seems that the Socket library does still not work with ghc 5.02.1.

[ghci clarification] There, it crashes for me even on the 2nd invocation:

connect(13, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(80), sin_addr=inet_addr("137.226.194.33")}}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress) gettimeofday({1006436761, 219035}, NULL) = 0 select(14, [], [13], NULL, {134, 217727}) = 1 (out [13], left {134, 220000}) getsockopt(13, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [1835091456], [1]) = 0 write(1, "*", 1) = 1

whereas on the first, succeeding call to 'connect' it says;

select(14, [], [13], NULL, {134, 217727}) = 1 (out [13], left {134, 210000}) getsockopt(13, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [1]) = 0

I'm sad to say there was another bug in SocketPrim.getSocketOption in 5.02.1. Please try the enclosed patch. Cheers, Simon