-------------------------------------------- -- unix-bytestring 0.3.4 -------------------------------------------- The unix-bytestring package offers a full selection of Unix/Posix-specific functions for reading and writing ByteStrings to Fds. -------------------------------------------- -- Changes (since 0.3.2) -------------------------------------------- * For all the low-level functions (fd*Buf) there are now safer versions (tryFd*Buf) which return errors via Either Errno, instead of throwing IOError exceptions. These will be of particular interest to the maintainers of iteratee, iteratee-mtl, and liboleg. * All the low-level functions (and the appropriate higher-level analogues) now check that the ByteCount or Int arguments are positive. If they're negative or zero then they return immediately (saying that zero bytes were read/written, returning an empty ByteString, etc). Note that this behavior is different than the functions in @unix@ which only check if they're equal to zero, or don't check at all. -------------------------------------------- -- Future work -------------------------------------------- * The readv(2) and writev(2) functions have a number of corner cases that throw errors (e.g., if you have too many iovecs where "too many" could mean >16) but these can be detected beforehand, or worked around by making multiple calls. Unfortunately, finding out what the limit is (or whether the linked version of libc does its own workarounds) is pretty tricky and platform-dependent. So I'll work on figure that out and making some safer wrappers. -------------------------------------------- -- Links -------------------------------------------- Homepage: http://code.haskell.org/~wren/ Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unix-bytestring Darcs: http://community.haskell.org/~wren/unix-bytestring Haddock (Darcs version): http://community.haskell.org/~wren/unix-bytestring/dist/doc/html/unix-bytest... -- Live well, ~wren