[Haskell-cafe] Opening a file that another process is writing

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Maurício,

Thursday, July 20, 2006, 1:22:01 AM, you wrote:

>    I want to open for reading a log file that another process is locking
> for write. I know it's possible, since 'cat' and 'vim' can read that 
> file (but not edit it, of course). How can I do that in Haskell? 
> 'openFile' says "permission denied".

(untested) i think you should open it in shared mode, that is
impossible via openFile. but you can open Fd using low-level
c_open call and then use fdToHandle procedure


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com