On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Daniel Díaz <danield...@asofilak.es> wrote:

> Hi, cafe,
>
> all I want is to read the unread portion of a handle, without blocking
> waiting for an EOF or a newline. My first attempt was to try with
> hGetBufNonBlocking from System.IO, and other functions that use it in its
> definition (directly or indirectly). But, unfortunately:
>
> hGetBufNonBlocking doesn't work on Windows:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/806
>
> This was a bad surprise.
>
> How can achieve my purpose without hGetBufNonBlocking?
>

That ticket mentions that this may be fixed in GHC 7.0.1 and newer.  What
version of ghc are you using?  The most recent haskell platform uses ghc
7.0.2.

Jason
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