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

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

+1

This is the most confusing bit I've ever seen in Haskell.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Haskell currently requires that multiple-reader single-writer locking is
> used on files. I understand the motivation for this was to try to
> protect people from running into problems due to lazy IO, but in
> practice I think it just causes more problems than it solves.
>
> The decision may also have been influenced by the belief that this
> behaviour is enforced for all programs on Windows, but I am told that it
> is possible to get lock-free behaviour on Windows too.
>
> I propose that we remove all the automatic locking from the libraries,
> and let the user do any locking that they wish to do themselves.
>
> Attached are patches for ghc, base, process and unix. (not yet tested on
> Windows).
>
>
> Suggested discussion period: Until 9 Nov 2011
>
> Related GHC ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4363
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
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-- 
Felipe.