Bug in IO libraries when sending data through a pipe?

[Volker Stolz]

Am 18. Mar 2002 um 13:51 MET schrieb Simon Marlow:
> unevaluated until the child process needs to construct its argument list
> to pass to executeFile.  Hence the child process pokes on the lazy
> stream, and when the parent process subsequently demands data from the
> lazy stream, there is a buffer's worth missing.
> 
> Moral of this story: don't use lazy I/O.

There's a warning in the documentation of executeFile to exactly the
same end after all...
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