Stefan O'Rear wrote:
The problem is that you're closing the file twice. When you call any function of the getContents family, you assign to that function the responsibility to close the file, no sooner than it is no longer needed. Don't call hClose yourself, Bad Things will happen.
Care to elaborate on "bad things"? (I.e., will this just crash the program with an error, or will it do something more serious?) I must admit, I thought closing such a file was simply no-op. I can't remember why exactly, but somewhere or other I wrote some code that does this. (Basically I want to shut the file without reading all of it, so I can reopen it and start reading from the beginning again.) Is there a sane way to do this? Or am I going to have to start playing with explicit reads and writes? (Obviously I could just hang on to *all* of the input stream returned from getContents - but that could be quite large. The current way gives me low memory usage...)