Proposal: Stop enforcing single-writer-multi-reader file access

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 11:54:02AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> 
> And if you switch the default and users have to do their own locking,
> how can they do it? I'm not sure there is any sensible way to do it. Any
> bit of IO code can open any file. If they're already tightly coupled and
> can share an MVar it's fine, but that's not the sort of accidental
> situation that the current implicit locking protects against.

We have the same problem now with any library which you FFI import that
does any file IO.


Thanks
Ian