Proposal unix. Change to `IO (Maybe String)`: getLoginName, getUserEntry* and getGroupEntry*

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Greg Weber <greg at gregweber.info> wrote:

> Agreed with Johan. If there are meaningful error messages that get
> produced, Either is better than Maybe.


"Meaningful" is open to question; what you get back is a NULL pointer amd
an errno, both of which can be annoyingly non-specific.

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