Network/Notwork?

Sigbjorn Finne sof@galois.com
Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:42:10 -0800


The problem is that the necessary header file (config.h) isn't included
in that module. This was fixed a while ago in HEAD.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Strand" <d98peter@dtek.chalmers.se>
To: "C.Reinke" <C.Reinke@ukc.ac.uk>
Cc: <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 13:34
Subject: Re: Network/Notwork?


> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:01:20PM +0000, C.Reinke wrote:
> > Windows only, of course!-) On Solaris, I never even noticed there
> > might be a problem (it seems to work even without acknowledgment or
> > hFlush..).
> 
> One explanation could be that hClose ends up calling close instead 
> of closesocket under windows. 
> 
> I tried your example, and got the same error (under win2k).
> But by using a slightly modified hClose, everything seemed to
> work well.
> 
> In base/GHC/Handle.hs there is a preprocessor conditional on
> mingw32_TARGET_OS which seems to be undefined in the distributed
> compilation (I used 5.04.3). By explicitly calling closeFd there
> instead of c_close it works for me.
> Perhaps it should trigger on WITH_WINSOCK instead?
>