[Haskell-beginners] R/W from/to partitions (on linux)

[Silent Leaf]

i'm reading on the doc of BS.Lazy.hGetContents:
"Once EOF is encountered, the Handle is closed."

what does that imply if i'm using it inside of withFile? no risk of getting
prematurely out of the function right? that doesn seem possible in a pure
function but i'm asking either way.
if say i do something that reads the whole file, say calculating its
length, does it mean since EOF will be reached i'll have to open the file
again? i think i'm a bit lost...

i'm trying to find how to read big chunks of two files, do stuff with each
pair of chunk, and so on till the EOF, which may or may not happen at the
same time for both... i don't really know how lazy bytestrings handle, for
example, taking too much from a file. one way would be to calculate the
length, ofc, but for files (partition) of several dozens of gigabytes, it's
a bit delicate... the ideal would be to get the length from the system
itself rather than calculate the whole string ...

2017-06-26 7:57 GMT+02:00 Silent Leaf <silent.leaf0 at gmail.com>:

> Darn quick answer! Thanks Sylvain, that may be all i need to start!
>
> 2017-06-26 7:51 GMT+02:00 Sylvain Henry <sylvain at haskus.fr>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is not Haskell specific. You just have to read from the partition
>> device special file (e.g., something like /dev/sdb2) as you would do with a
>> normal file. You must have the permission to do so (e.g., be root). Be
>> careful as you can destroy your system if you write something incorrect in
>> your partitions.
>>
>> Repositioning handles: https://www.stackage.org/haddo
>> ck/lts-8.20/base-4.9.1.0/System-IO.html#g:13
>>
>> Read/write: https://www.stackage.org/haddock/lts-8.20/base-4.9.1.0/Syste
>> m-IO.html#v:hPutBuf
>>
>> Sylvain
>>
>> On 26/06/2017 07:35, Silent Leaf wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to be able to read and write from/to partitions directly. I've
>> had trouble with the documentation (honestly i can't find anything, and any
>> mention of partitions leads to mathematical partitioning of lists or
>> whatever).
>>
>> I obviously would need to be able to write or read from a specific
>> position in the partition. Mind you that would be good too for files (that
>> is, being able to read/write from a specific position in it) since i plan
>> on making disk images.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
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