hGetBuf (or something related) broken for 6.2 with sockets

[George Russell]

Simon Marlow wrote (snipped):

> BTW George: there are plenty of 6.1.xxxxxxx snapshots available - these
> are the 6.2 prereleases.  

There are, but no recent ones.  What I would like to have had is a 6.2-epsilon
version, not 6.1 and a bit.

> We don't snapshot along the STABLE branch at
> the moment; no real deep reason, we'd just have to figure out a version
> numbering scheme, and this might upset various scripts that expect to
> parse the GHC version number.  Since you have to build from source
> anyway, why not download the sources from CVS?

The problem with downloading things direct from CVS is that I don't expect people
to run substantial tests before checking things into CVS.  (We don't on our CVS
server.)  Of course I don't expect a snapshot release to have the same reliability
as a real release, but at least snapshot releases seem to compile and succeed in
compiling themselves.

Anyway Simon, is there a workaround to the sockets problem I posted or not?