[Haskell-cafe] withFile variant which takes a ByteString?

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 05:52:30PM +0200, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a variant of withFile which takes a ByteString?
> 
> (I'm aware that I could use the lower-level System.Posix FD-based
> functions, but if someone already has a package out there, I'd rather
> not.)

You might want to have a look at the Filesystem module, in
system-fileio[^1].  It's not exactly what you ask for, but it seems to
be a rather good way of dealing with filesystem paths.

/M

[^1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/system-fileio

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