runProcess/ createPipe
George Russell
ger@tzi.de
Fri, 02 Mar 2001 22:29:01 +0100
If Posix.runProcess really is supposed "our candidate for the high-level OS-independent
primitive" (see documentation), it would help if there was a documented way of using it
with pipes. The problem is that runProcess takes handles as arguments, while the obvious
function, createPipe, returns two Fds. There seems to be no _documented_ way of
converting an Fd to a Handle. I suggest therefore that either there be a
createPipeHandle :: IO (Handle,Handle)
(which would be nice, because it might avoid bothering the operating system completely, and
would makes sense on non-Posix systems). Or else, the existing Posix.fdToHandle
fdToHandle :: Fd -> IO Handle
should be documented.