[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://www.joachim-breitner.de/" nickname="nomeata" subject="comment 3" date="2011-12-24T12:51:43Z" content=""" An alternative that is available from ghc 7.4 on is a pure ByteString based unix API: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/16556 """]]