[Haskell-cafe] writing to a fifo when the reader stops reading

Hi all, here's the code: writer = do threadDelay 100000 threadWaitWrite fd fdWrite fd ((show x) ++ "\n") writer fd (x+1) pretty simple, it just keeps writing. What happens though is that, eventually, the reader goes away, i.e. "closes" the fifo. When that happens I get: ghc: fdWriteBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe) which make sense, sort of. I write a value, let's say 10, and the reader reads it. It's the last value so it "closes" the fifo. Now there's nothing reading, so when I get to threadWaitWrite, I would expect the program to wait, just as it does when it starts up and there is no reader. looking for some guidance. Thank you, Brian