{-# LANGUAGE Safe #-} -- | -- -- Module : System.IO -- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow 2001 -- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) -- -- Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org -- Stability : stable -- Portability : portable -- -- The standard IO API. -- module System.IO (-- * Examples -- $stdio_examples -- * The IO monad IO, fixIO, -- * Files and handles FilePath, Handle, -- | GHC note: a 'Handle' will be automatically closed when the garbage -- collector detects that it has become unreferenced by the program. -- However, relying on this behaviour is not generally recommended: -- the garbage collector is unpredictable. If possible, use -- an explicit 'hClose' to close 'Handle's when they are no longer -- required. GHC does not currently attempt to free up file -- descriptors when they have run out, it is your responsibility to -- ensure that this doesn't happen. -- ** Standard handles -- | Three handles are allocated during program initialisation, -- and are initially open. stdin, stdout, stderr, -- * Opening and closing files -- ** Opening files withFile, openFile, IOMode(ReadMode, WriteMode, AppendMode, ReadWriteMode), -- ** Closing files hClose, -- ** Special cases -- | These functions are also exported by the "Prelude". readFile, readFile', writeFile, appendFile, -- ** File locking -- $locking -- * Operations on handles -- ** Determining and changing the size of a file hFileSize, hSetFileSize, -- ** Detecting the end of input hIsEOF, isEOF, -- ** Buffering operations BufferMode(NoBuffering, LineBuffering, BlockBuffering), hSetBuffering, hGetBuffering, hFlush, -- ** Repositioning handles hGetPosn, hSetPosn, HandlePosn, hSeek, SeekMode(AbsoluteSeek, RelativeSeek, SeekFromEnd), hTell, -- ** Handle properties hIsOpen, hIsClosed, hIsReadable, hIsWritable, hIsSeekable, -- ** Terminal operations (not portable: GHC only) hIsTerminalDevice, hSetEcho, hGetEcho, -- ** Showing handle state (not portable: GHC only) hShow, -- * Text input and output -- ** Text input hWaitForInput, hReady, hGetChar, hGetLine, hLookAhead, hGetContents, hGetContents', -- ** Text output hPutChar, hPutStr, hPutStrLn, hPrint, -- ** Special cases for standard input and output -- | These functions are also exported by the "Prelude". interact, putChar, putStr, putStrLn, print, getChar, getLine, getContents, getContents', readIO, readLn, -- * Binary input and output withBinaryFile, openBinaryFile, hSetBinaryMode, hPutBuf, hGetBuf, hGetBufSome, hPutBufNonBlocking, hGetBufNonBlocking, -- * Temporary files openTempFile, openBinaryTempFile, openTempFileWithDefaultPermissions, openBinaryTempFileWithDefaultPermissions, -- * Unicode encoding\/decoding -- | A text-mode 'Handle' has an associated 'TextEncoding', which -- is used to decode bytes into Unicode characters when reading, -- and encode Unicode characters into bytes when writing. -- -- The default 'TextEncoding' is the same as the default encoding -- on your system, which is also available as 'localeEncoding'. -- (GHC note: on Windows, we currently do not support double-byte -- encodings; if the console\'s code page is unsupported, then -- 'localeEncoding' will be 'latin1'.) -- -- Encoding and decoding errors are always detected and reported, -- except during lazy I/O ('hGetContents', 'getContents', and -- 'readFile'), where a decoding error merely results in -- termination of the character stream, as with other I/O errors. hSetEncoding, hGetEncoding, -- ** Unicode encodings TextEncoding, latin1, utf8, utf8_bom, utf16, utf16le, utf16be, utf32, utf32le, utf32be, localeEncoding, char8, mkTextEncoding, -- * Newline conversion -- | In Haskell, a newline is always represented by the character -- @\'\\n\'@. However, in files and external character streams, a -- newline may be represented by another character sequence, such -- as @\'\\r\\n\'@. -- -- A text-mode 'Handle' has an associated 'NewlineMode' that -- specifies how to translate newline characters. The -- 'NewlineMode' specifies the input and output translation -- separately, so that for instance you can translate @\'\\r\\n\'@ -- to @\'\\n\'@ on input, but leave newlines as @\'\\n\'@ on output. -- -- The default 'NewlineMode' for a 'Handle' is -- 'nativeNewlineMode', which does no translation on Unix systems, -- but translates @\'\\r\\n\'@ to @\'\\n\'@ and back on Windows. -- -- Binary-mode 'Handle's do no newline translation at all. hSetNewlineMode, Newline(..), nativeNewline, NewlineMode(..), noNewlineTranslation, universalNewlineMode, nativeNewlineMode ) where import GHC.Internal.System.IO -- $locking -- Implementations should enforce as far as possible, at least locally to the -- Haskell process, multiple-reader single-writer locking on files. -- That is, /there may either be many handles on the same file which manage input, or just one handle on the file which manages output/. If any -- open or semi-closed handle is managing a file for output, no new -- handle can be allocated for that file. If any open or semi-closed -- handle is managing a file for input, new handles can only be allocated -- if they do not manage output. Whether two files are the same is -- implementation-dependent, but they should normally be the same if they -- have the same absolute path name and neither has been renamed, for -- example. -- -- /Warning/: the 'readFile' operation holds a semi-closed handle on -- the file until the entire contents of the file have been consumed. -- It follows that an attempt to write to a file (using 'writeFile', for -- example) that was earlier opened by 'readFile' will usually result in -- failure with 'GHC.Internal.System.IO.Error.isAlreadyInUseError'. -- $stdio_examples -- Note: Some of the examples in this module do not work "as is" in ghci. -- This is because using 'stdin' in combination with lazy IO -- does not work well in interactive mode. -- -- Lines starting with @>@ indicate 'stdin' and @^D@ signales EOF. -- -- ==== __Example__ -- -- ghci> foo -- > input -- output -- > input^D -- output