[Haskell-cafe] named pipe interface

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

I (Sergei) am invesigating (so far) only Unix named pipes.

> > I hope you are aware of the many "gotchas" involved with FIFOs.  
> > There are very good reasons why they are not widely used.

At least in C <-> C, the Unix named pipes do work. 
And I am trying to replace the first end with Haskell.


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:23:24PM -0500, Michael Craig wrote:
> Brandon, can you elaborate? Are you talking about UNIX named pipes or
> FIFO/queue data structures in general?
> 
> Mike Craig
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:25, Serge D. Mechveliani <mechvel at botik.ru>wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Chadda?? Fouch?? wrote:
> >> >  Now that seems interesting, but just to be clear : did you choose
> >> > this solution (and why won't you use the FFI instead) or is this just
> >> > to see how to work it out ?
> >>
> >> Because it is a direct and the simplest approach. Why does one need a
> >> foreign language, if all the needed functions are in the standard
> >> Haskell library?
> >>
> >
> > I hope you are aware of the many "gotchas" involved with FIFOs.  There are
> > very good reasons why they are not widely used.
> >
> > --
> > brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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> >
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