This is a proposal to add ioeGetLocation and ioeSetLocation to System/IO/Error.hs. The functions are visible only to GHC and hugs; nhc is already missing some of this family of functions. The meat of the patch is +ioeGetLocation :: IOError -> String +ioeGetLocation ioe = ioe_location ioe +ioeSetLocation :: IOError -> String -> IOError +ioeSetLocation ioe str = ioe{ ioe_location = str } Deadline: About a week after discussion stops. Thanks Ian