Brandon, can you elaborate? Are you talking about UNIX named pipes or FIFO/queue data structures in general?<div><br clear="all">Mike Craig<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:25, Serge D. Mechveliani <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mechvel@botik.ru" target="_blank">mechvel@botik.ru</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">

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<div><div class="im">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Chadda?? Fouch?? wrote:<br></div><div class="im">&gt;  Now that seems interesting, but just to be clear : did you choose<br>
&gt; this solution (and why won&#39;t you use the FFI instead) or is this just<br>
&gt; to see how to work it out ?<br>

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</div></div><div class="im">Because it is a direct and the simplest approach. Why does one need a<br>
foreign language, if all the needed functions are in the standard<br>
Haskell library?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I hope you are aware of the many &quot;gotchas&quot; involved with FIFOs.  There are very good reasons why they are not widely used. </div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>

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