It's a hack by design, to work around libraries that do the wrong thing. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Henning Thielemann < lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Daniel Peebles wrote:
Check out the spoon package on hackage. It's designed for these kinds of
situations, and will wrap up common user-generated "pure" exceptions into a Maybe (and will return Nothing in the cases you describe)
This is a hack, since 'undefined' cannot be detected in general. The clean solution would be to find out where invalid file descriptors are detected in the IO code, and throw a real IOException instead of an 'error'.
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