MY bad!!!<br><br>I was trying to open "/dev/cdrom/" and not "dev/cdrom"!!! and hence "/dev/cdrom/" was correctly treated as a directory ... <br><br>Vasili<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 30, 2008 11:25 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <<a href="mailto:allbery@ece.cmu.edu">allbery@ece.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Jan 30, 2008, at 23:23 , Galchin Vasili wrote:<br><br>> I am trying to do the following on RedHat RHEL 5.0:<br>
><br>> main = do<br>> fs <- openFd "/dev/cdrom" ReadOnly (Just ???) defaultFileFlags<br>> putStrLn (show fd)<br>><br>> what should (Just ???) be ???<br><br></div>I think you can pass Nothing instead of a Just, since that argument<br>
is ignored when opening read only. If you feel you need to pass<br>something, use nullFileMode.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] <a href="mailto:allbery@kf8nh.com">allbery@kf8nh.com</a><br>
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] <a href="mailto:allbery@ece.cmu.edu">allbery@ece.cmu.edu</a><br>electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH<br><br><br></div></div></blockquote>
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