Re: PROPOSAL: Add openFileTemplate, openBinaryFileTemplate to System.IO

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:11:40PM -0700, Evan Laforge wrote:

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM, minh thu wrote:

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2009/7/25 Evan Laforge :

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I've never heard this usage of the word "template" before, so I guessed it was meant to open some kind of template file. openWithMode?  openWithPermissions?

man mktemp

Ohhh, it's for the filename, sorry, all the talk about permissions got me on the wrong track.

Right. Just to clarify for anyone else reading, we currently have: openTempFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO (FilePath, Handle) openBinaryTempFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO (FilePath, Handle) which mask the mode, and we would add openFileTemplate :: FilePath -> String -> IO (FilePath, Handle) openBinaryFileTemplate :: FilePath -> String -> IO (FilePath, Handle) which do not. Theese functions are used like this: openFileTemplate "/foo/bar" "bazXXX.ext" and open a file called "baz143.ext". "bazXXX.ext" is the template. Thanks Ian