Proposal: add ByteString support to unix:System.Posix.IO API

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 3/3/11 13:18 , Gábor Lehel wrote:
> keep the String versions around for the convenience of people who
> happen to have gotten a String from somewhere (there are, after all,
> quite a few such places), and wish to output it to a file descriptor.

Which was my point.  If you're going to deprecate Strings, do so across the
board in an organized manner --- not via ad hoc deprecations to individual
libraries.

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