[Haskell-cafe] named pipe interface

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:25, Serge D. Mechveliani <mechvel at botik.ru>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Chadda?? Fouch?? wrote:
> >  Now that seems interesting, but just to be clear : did you choose
> > this solution (and why won't you use the FFI instead) or is this just
> > to see how to work it out ?
>
> Because it is a direct and the simplest approach. Why does one need a
> foreign language, if all the needed functions are in the standard
> Haskell library?
>

I hope you are aware of the many "gotchas" involved with FIFOs.  There are
very good reasons why they are not widely used.

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