cetin.sert:
Hi *^o^*,
I am writing [1]a network manager as a replacement for some broken, already existing knetworkmanager for a friend's computer.
I was looking for some haskell libraries that provide access to wlan cards but could not find any on hackage. Maybe I missed something. Currently my tool is using linux the commands: modprobe, ifconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, dhclient etc.. Can a library calling external stand-alone linux commands be considered good enough as is? Or should one definitely write a wrapper around a more low-level, stable, POSIX-compliant foreign library to access and configure, control WLAN cards? I'd love to hear your comments.
Hmm. For the long run, using the C FFI is probably more robust (a few less points of failure). A binding to the shell commands will be cheaper and more cheerful. Go for it! -- Don