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The documentation for `fdToHandle` should be more explicit about what sort of handle it returns. Is it buffered? Is it a binary handle or a text handle? If the latter,...
`man utimensat` doesn't document it (at least on Ubuntu 16.04 -- but [this page](https://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man3/futimens.3.asp) seems to do for `futimens`), but it seems that `utimensat()` can return `errno = EINTR` when...
Hi, I'm a bit surprised that various I/O (in the filesystem sense, not Haskell `IO`) functions are imported as `unsafe`. While they won't call back to Haskell, depeding on which...
Joeys reports at http://bugs.debian.org/773821: ``` import System.Posix.Files import Control.Exception import Foreign.C.Types main = print =
Some time ago, based on the discussion in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/20865/focus=20936 @JohnLato prepared a patch at https://github.com/JohnLato/packages-unix/commit/a1d905c4cce27c1efab834f1afaaa0d7f9bf1643 that's risking to be forgotten.
`fdatasync()` is not supported (as such) on OS X. An alternative using `fcntl()` is detailed in [a picoc issue](https://code.google.com/p/picoc/issues/detail?id=145). We should provide the `fcntl()`-based alternative on OS X (and presumably...
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** The problem is trying to use modern SSDs to their maximum performance for random I/O (particularly random reads) on normal...
