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

[Bas van Dijk]

On 27 October 2011 00:59, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> 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.

+1

Of course this breaks compatibility with Haskell 2010:

http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch41.html#x49-32800041.3.4

Should a Haskell' proposal be filed?

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Process

Regards,

Bas