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

From: David Menendez Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are handles garbage-collected? Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:51:34 -0400

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk writes:

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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/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe