sockets and handles in ghc

[Volker Stolz]

[Moving to glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org]

In local.haskell, you wrote:
> I've been using sockets and handles with ghc-5.04.3.
> The strange thing is now that when I make a handle
> out of a socket and ask whether the handle is readable
> or writable, it returns True for the former and False
> for the latter, although sockets are bidirectional. And yes,

Do you have a small sample program which shows this behaviour?
Can you try ghc-6? There have been some updates, but I cannot tell
if this was a particular bug that got fixed.

Regards,
  Volker
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