Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are handles garbage-collected?

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes:

I would not be surprised if relying on GC to close open files would be generally considered kosher in a few years - in cases when it has little visible effects outside, i.e. excluding network connections, but including reading configuration files.

One of the goals of ReiserFS, if I recall correctly, is to create a filesystem API that doesn't involve file handles. I wonder how far one could get without explicitly dealing with file handles outside of the IO library implementation. -- David Menendez http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/