[Haskell-cafe] about System.Posix.Files.fileAccess

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Jan 14, at 9:02, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> This is of course a personal opinion, but I think the interface of:
> fileAccess :: FilePath -> Bool -> Bool -> Bool -> IO Bool
> http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/unix/System-Posix-Files.html#v 
> :fileAccess
>
> is not very good.


The underlying system call access() is strongly disrecommended, so  
it's not really worth a better interface.

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