[Haskell-cafe] wlan library
Don Stewart
dons at galois.com
Fri Dec 12 21:41:20 EST 2008
cetin.sert:
> Hi *^o^*,
>
> I am writing [1]a network manager as a replacement for some broken,
> already existing knetworkmanager for a friend's computer.
>
> I was looking for some haskell libraries that provide access to wlan cards
> but could not find any on hackage. Maybe I missed something. Currently my
> tool is using linux the commands: modprobe, ifconfig, iwconfig, iwlist,
> dhclient etc.. Can a library calling external stand-alone linux commands
> be considered good enough as is? Or should one definitely write a wrapper
> around a more low-level, stable, POSIX-compliant foreign library to access
> and configure, control WLAN cards? I'd love to hear your comments.
Hmm. For the long run, using the C FFI is probably more robust (a few
less points of failure). A binding to the shell commands will be cheaper
and more cheerful.
Go for it!
-- Don
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