On Jan 30, 2008 11:10 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

On Jan 30, 2008, at 23:05 , Galchin Vasili wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The signature for openFD is
>
> openFd: FilePath
> -> OpenMode
> -> Maybe FileMode
> -> OpenFileFlags
> -> IO Fd
>
> I am currently reading http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/
> libraries/unix/System-Posix-Files.html and diving down into links
> but can't find the definition of data type FileMode. ??? Basically
> I want to open in O_RDONLY filemode.

That's an OpenMode, not a FileMode. The FileMode values are at the
top of System-Posix-Files.html and correspond to Unix open()'s third
argument. (ownerReadMode, etc.) OpenMode is documented at the start
of http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/unix/System-
Posix-IO.html .

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