opening a file for writing and reading

[Jeremy Shaw]

On Jan 12, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> I believe you can work around it by using System.Posix.IO to open a
>> file, then convert the Fd to a Handle.
>
> Right, you can bypass the safety mechanism that way.

Opening as Fd works, but converting to a Handle causes the error to  
come back. Fortunately, it was easy to modify the code to just stick  
with Fd, and portability to Windows is not a concern.

thanks everyone!

- jeremy