[Haskell-cafe] trying to use unix's openFD ..

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 23:23 , Galchin Vasili wrote:

> I am trying to do the following on RedHat RHEL 5.0:
>
> main = do
>     fs <- openFd "/dev/cdrom" ReadOnly (Just ???) defaultFileFlags
>     putStrLn (show fd)
>
> what should (Just ???) be ???

I think you can pass Nothing instead of a Just, since that argument  
is ignored when opening read only.  If you feel you need to pass  
something, use nullFileMode.

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