MY bad!!!
I was trying to open "/dev/cdrom/" and not "dev/cdrom"!!! and hence
"/dev/cdrom/" was correctly treated as a directory ...
Vasili
On Jan 30, 2008 11:25 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Jan 30, 2008, at 23:23 , Galchin Vasili wrote:
I am trying to do the following on RedHat RHEL 5.0:
main = do fs <- openFd "/dev/cdrom" ReadOnly (Just ???) defaultFileFlags putStrLn (show fd)
what should (Just ???) be ???
I think you can pass Nothing instead of a Just, since that argument is ignored when opening read only. If you feel you need to pass something, use nullFileMode.
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