12 Dec
2005
12 Dec
'05
1:12 p.m.
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:52 -0800, Donn Cave wrote:
Of course there's a risk that the authors of ghc may notice that we're doing this and come up with a way to thwart it, but it seems to me that between interfering with legitimate applications and not working reliably anyway, there'd be a case for letting go of this notion altogether.
Except that it is specified to work this way in the Haskell Report. Instead of changing the semantics of the standard libraries what you want is a back door to allow the alternative semantics that you want. Even better would be to provide a supported api for opening files without locking. Duncan