Re: [Haskell-cafe] lazy strings and parallel read

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 19:50 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:

But if every function that reads the data uses pread, then this should no more be a problem.

Or I'm missing some other thing?

If you used something like pread instead of hGetContents then yes that would not involve semi-closing a handle or doing lazy IO. Of course pread only works for seekable Handles like files, not terminals, pipes, sockets etc etc. Duncan