[Haskell-cafe] Windows: openFile gives permission denied when file in use

[Antoine Latter]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just received a bug report from a client that, when an input file is
> open in FrameMaker, my program gives a "permission denied error". This
> bug is reproducible with a simple Haskell program:
>

This bug and its discussion is similar, but not identical:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4363

> import System.IO
>
> main = do
>    putStrLn "here1"
>    h <- openFile "filename.txt" ReadMode
>    putStrLn "here2"
>
> I tried writing a simple C program using fopen, and it ran just fine.
> Does anyone have experience with this issue, and know of a workaround?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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