[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: zlib and bzlib 0.5 releases

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> The current error handling for decompression is not ideal. It just
> throws exceptions for failures like bad format or unexpected end of
> stream. This is a tricky area because error streaming behaviour does not
> mix easily with error handling.

Maybe
    http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/explicit-exception/0.0.1/doc/html/Control-Monad-Exception-Asynchronous.html
   can be of help?