System.Posix.IO.ByteString

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Antoine Latter wrote:

> The 'unix-bytestring' package looks like it can read a ByteString from the
> file descriptor once you have it open:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unix-bytestring-0.3.7.2/docs/System-Posix-IO-ByteString.html
> 
> Sadly both 'unix' and 'unix-bytestring' define a module named
> 'System.Posix.IO.ByteString', and you need functionality from both to get
> your job done - 'openFd' from 'unix' and then 'fdRead' from
> 'unix-bytestring'.

Ah, thanks for that. In the end, I ended up using `fdReadBuf` to
read the data into a buffer, followed by `unsafePackCStringFinalizer`
to get a ByteString.

Erik
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