On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:00:18PM -0700, Isaac Jones wrote:
+-- |Open and optionally create this file. See 'System.Posix.Files' +-- for information on how to use the 'FileMode' type. openFd :: FilePath -> OpenMode - -> Maybe FileMode -- Just x => O_CREAT, Nothing => must exist + -> Maybe FileMode -- ^Just x => creates the file with the given modes, Nothing => the file must exist.
I believe the FileMode is modified by umask, so the file is not generally created with that mode. You might add, "to use the user's default, pass 0o666".
-fdRead :: Fd -> ByteCount -> IO (String, ByteCount) +-- | May throw an exception if this is an invalid descriptor. +fdRead :: Fd + -> ByteCount -- ^How many bytes to read + -> IO (String, ByteCount) -- ^The bytes read, how many bytes were read.
Add that eof raises an exception rather than returning an empty string. Andrew