[Haskell-cafe] named pipe interface

[Michael Craig]

Brandon, can you elaborate? Are you talking about UNIX named pipes or
FIFO/queue data structures in general?

Mike Craig



On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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