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

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:55:41PM +0100, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
> 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.

Actually, I realised when revisiting the ticket that this is really only
a change in the libraries, and we've taken the approach that library
changes are handled by the library proposal process, and the standard
will follow along in the next release.


Thanks
Ian