select: Wrap the select(2) POSIX function

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While tinkering on a project, I frequently found myself having to make FFI calls to select(2). This package provides an interface to that system call.

Changes in version 0.4:

  • Introduce an interface to fd_set.

  • Add functions with various amounts of abstraction; in particular, select'' matches select in previous versions.

  • Retry select(2) in case of interruption by signals.

  • Remove dependence on the vector package.

WARNINGS:

  • Behavior with write and exception file descriptors is under-tested. Feedback is welcome.

  • This package is far from complete, and should be tested throughly before being relied upon.

TODO:

  • Return the error code specified by errno if select fails.

  • Possibly move the select retry code from C to Haskell.

  • Reorder functions to make the documentation more logical.

  • Use hsc2hs's #const to get preprocessor constants (removes some of FdSet's cbits.c).

NOTE: I feel I'm occupying prime namespace realestate with a package name like select. I'll happily let myself be chased away if someone more qualified wants to use this package name. Let me know.

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.0.1
Dependencies base (>=4 && <5) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2012 Gard Spreemann
Author Gard Spreemann
Maintainer Gard Spreemann <gspreemann@gmail.com>
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Home page http://nonempty.org/software/haskell-select
Uploaded by GardSpreemann at 2012-10-07T13:01:57Z
Distributions NixOS:0.4.0.1
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