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		dllthomas on March 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What it's like to use Haskell Good to know. Does it work for everything that's an fd in Linux? I know you've got to treat sockets and files differently in some cases (or at least did once)...

enigmo on March 27, 2014 [–]

It works for most kernel handles, sockets might be a little more normal starting with Win7 but I stopped doing Windows development around then.

Here are the official docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms72...

dllthomas on March 27, 2014 | [–]

Looks like there's a separate function for sockets.

Still, cool stuff there too.

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