Re: Proposal unix. Change to `IO (Maybe String)`: getLoginName, getUserEntry* and getGroupEntry*

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Greg Weber wrote:

Agreed with Johan. If there are meaningful error messages that get produced, Either is better than Maybe.

"Meaningful" is open to question; what you get back is a NULL pointer amd an errno, both of which can be annoyingly non-specific. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net