posix-api-0.3.3.0: posix-api.cabal
cabal-version: 2.2
name: posix-api
version: 0.3.3.0
synopsis: posix bindings
description:
This library provides a very thin wrapper around POSIX APIs. It can be
compiled on any operating system that implements the standard as specified
in <http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ IEEE Std 1003.1>
faithfully. It has similar goals as the `unix` package, but its design
differs in several areas:
.
* `ByteArray` and `Addr` are used pervasively. There is no use of
`String` in this library.
.
* Functions do not throw errors. This library uses `IO (Either Errno a)`
in places where `unix` would use `IO a`.
.
* The numeric types from `Foreign.C.Types` and `System.Posix.Types` are
used in the type signatures of functions so that a haskell function's
type signature matches its underlying POSIX equivalent exactly.
.
* Flags are newtypes over `CInt` (or whatever integral type matches the
posix specification) rather than enumerations. The data constructors
are exported, making the types extensible for operating system that
have additional flags.
.
About a dozen other packages offers wrappers for some subset of the POSIX
specification are strewn across hackage. They include `regex-posix`,
`posix-paths`, `posix-timer`, `posix-socket`, `posix-filelock`,
`posix-acl`, etc. This library differs from all off these in various
ways. Here are some of the design guidelines followed here that distinguish
this package from some or all of these others:
.
* Scope. Although this library does not include all APIs specified by
POSIX, it welcomes as many of them as anyone is willing to implement.
.
* Monomorphization. Effectful functions in this library return their
results in `IO` rather than using a type that involves `MonadIO`
or `MonadBaseControl`.
.
* Typeclass avoidance. This library does not introduce new typeclasses.
Overloading is eschewed in favor of providing multiple functions
with distinct names.
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* Minimality. Functions wrapping the POSIX APIs do little more than
wrap the underlying functions. The major deviation here is that,
when applicable, the wrappers allocate buffers are the underlying
functions fill. This eschews C's characteristic buffer-passing
in favor of the Haskell convention of allocating internally and returning.
A more minor deviation is that for safe FFI calls, this library
will perform additional work to ensure that only pinned byte arrays are
handed over.
.
Unlike `network`, this sockets API in this library does not integrate
sockets with GHC's event manager. This is geared
toward an audience that understands how to use `threadWaitRead`
and `threadWaitWrite` with unsafe FFI calls to avoid blocking
the runtime.
homepage: https://github.com/andrewthad/posix-api
license: BSD-3-Clause
license-file: LICENSE
author: Andrew Martin
maintainer: andrew.thaddeus@gmail.com
copyright: 2018 Andrew Martin
category: System
build-type: Simple
extra-source-files:
README.md
CHANGELOG.md
cbits/HaskellPosix.c
include/HaskellPosix.h
include/custom.h
flag assertions
manual: True
description: Extra run-time invariant checking
default: False
library
exposed-modules:
Linux.Epoll
Linux.MessageQueue
Linux.Socket
Linux.Systemd
Posix.Directory
Posix.MessageQueue
Posix.Poll
Posix.Select
Posix.Socket
Posix.Types
other-modules:
Linux.Epoll.Types
Linux.MessageQueue.Types
Linux.Socket.Types
Posix.MessageQueue.Types
Posix.Poll.Types
Posix.Socket.Platform
Posix.Socket.Types
Assertion
build-depends:
, base >=4.11.1 && <5
, byteslice >= 0.1.3 && <0.3
, primitive >= 0.7 && <0.8
, primitive-addr >= 0.1 && <0.2
, primitive-offset >= 0.2 && <0.3
, primitive-unlifted >= 0.1 && <0.2
hs-source-dirs: src
if flag(assertions)
hs-source-dirs: src-assertions
else
hs-source-dirs: src-noassertions
if os(linux)
hs-source-dirs: src-linux
default-language: Haskell2010
ghc-options: -Wall -O2
c-sources: cbits/HaskellPosix.c
include-dirs: include
includes: HaskellPosix.h
extra-libraries: systemd
build-tool-depends: hsc2hs:hsc2hs
test-suite test
type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
hs-source-dirs: test
main-is: Main.hs
build-depends:
, base
, posix-api
, tasty
, tasty-hunit
, primitive >= 0.7
, primitive-unlifted
ghc-options: -Wall -O2 -threaded
default-language: Haskell2010