On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Chadda?? Fouch?? wrote:
> Now that seems interesting, but just to be clear : did you choose
> this solution (and why won't you use the FFI instead) or is this just
> to see how to work it out ?
Because it is a direct and the simplest approach. Why does one need a
foreign language, if all the needed functions are in the standard
Haskell library?
I hope you are aware of the many "gotchas" involved with FIFOs. There are very good reasons why they are not widely used.