[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Tue Jan 11 06:38:51 EST 2005


Ben Rudiak-Gould <Benjamin.Rudiak-Gould at cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:

>     http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/io/System.IO.html

"fileRead :: File -> FileOffset -> Integer -> Buffer -> IO ()"

This is unimplementable safely if the descriptor is read concurrently
by different processes. The current position is shared.

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