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

[Max Bolingbroke]

On 27 October 2011 16:31, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should a Haskell' proposal be filed?
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Process

Ian mentioned this issue in the GHC ticket at
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4363. He says:

"""
I think the next step should be a  Haskell' proposal to remove the
locking from the report (including a clarification that a no-locking
implementation is possible on Windows).

Some people might argue that we should have an implementation first, though.
"""

So I guess we are seeing this patch as part of an "implementation
first" approach.

Max