[Haskell-cafe] Re: Trying to write a TCP proxy

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, John Ky wrote:

> Actually, it blocks on:
> 
> >    putStrLn contents
> 
> It even blocks if I replace it with:
> 
> >    print $ length contents
> 
> Is there some kind of magic happening here?
> 

No, but you're trying to do magic - it can't get all of contents until the 
connection's dropped.

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