[Haskell-cafe] hSetBuffering woes

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Eric wrote:

> I've converted to lazy bytestrings. After reading in the bytes from a 
> network connection I want to save them to a file but now the appendFile 
> function blocks:

Well, yes.  It's presumably waiting for data from the network 
connection, because it wants to write out the entire ByteString, and 
whoever you're receiving data from hasn't closed the connection.

If you stepped back and stated the more general problem you are trying 
to solve, we could help you more effectively.

	<b