ghc-5.02 refuses to open a device file

Max A . K . max630@mail.ru
Sat, 17 Nov 2001 02:42:23 +0600


I guess it's a [mis]feature, since 5.00 worked, but can hardly
imagine anybody could need it.

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Prelude> h<-IO.openFile "/dev/zero" IO.ReadMode
*** Exception: unsupported operation
Action: openFile
Reason: unknown file type
File: /dev/rtf0
Prelude> Leaving GHCi.
max@max$cat /dev/zero
<C-C>
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Max.