Re: [Haskell-cafe] lockFile: fd out of range

2005/10/28, Joel Reymont :

Understood. I had the same problem with Erlang on Mac OSX and had to edit system files to bring it up to the maxium allowed of 10240. Worked like a charm after recompiling.

What do you do on Windows where there's no hard-coded FD_SETSIZE?

For quite a long time the file locking was broken on Windows and the files were not locked at all. After the last major GHC release the files are locked using the Win32 API and the lockFile hack isn't required. Cheers, Krasimir