[Haskell-cafe] Opening the same file multiple times

[Simon Marlow]

On 12 December 2005 14:01, Einar Karttunen wrote:

> On 12.12 12:06, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> It states in the Haskell Report 21.2.3:
>> 
>> http://haskell.org/onlinereport/io.html
> 
> Thanks, for the pointer, but am looking for an extension
> in the non-haskell98 API to do it.
> 
> It seems that things are quite problematic:
> 
> 1) Use openFile or GHC.Handle.openFd
> 
> Works in Hugs, fails as the standard mandates in GHC
> due to locking. This is fine.

You can trick openFd into not locking the file by passing (Just
RawDevice) as the file type.  Ugly, but should work.

Cheers,
	Simon