[Haskell-cafe] I/O system brokenness with named pipes

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 10, 2008, at 21:34 , John Goerzen wrote:
> So I have a need to write data to a POSIX named pipe (aka FIFO).  Long
> story involving a command that doesn't have an option to read data
> from stdin, but can from a named pipe.
>
> I have created the named pipe from Haskell no problem.
>
> But I can't use writeFile to write data to it.  Worse, it returns:
>
> *** Exception: /tmp/bakroller.zD0xHj/fifo: openFile: does not exist
>     (No such device or address)

The "does not exist" is misleading:  ENXIO ("No such device or  
address"), unless it's being abused by the runtime, indicates  
something's wrong at the kernel level when trying to associate the FIFO.

Using FIFOs properly is actually rather tricky and fidgety.  Can you  
provide the actual code you're using?

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