On Mar 4, 2007, at 23:46 , David Brown wrote:
Hi, I'm writing some code to use System.Posix.Files to restore a filesystem. I've discovered a few missing things.
- There is a createDevice, but the mode values needed to pass to this call aren't exported (blockSpecialMode, characterSpecialMode).
Wouldn't you also need to be able to specify the major and minor numbers for the device? I have a first try at that in the System.PosixCompat.Extensions module in the unix-compat package (darcs repo: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/unix-compat/). The unix-compat package aims to provide the unix package API on all platforms, with suitable dummy implementations when there is no corresponding functionality.
- In fact, it would be nice to be able to have fileTypeModes exported as well as each of the types. One would assume that someone using System.Posix wishes to access things at this kind of level.
/Björn