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{-# LANGUAGE Trustworthy #-}
{-# LANGUAGE CPP, NoImplicitPrelude, CApiFFI #-}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- |
-- 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 library.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
module System.IO (
-- * The IO monad
IO,
fixIO,
-- * Files and handles
FilePath,
Handle, -- abstract, instance of: Eq, Show.
-- | 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, -- abstract, instance of: Eq, Show.
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 Control.Exception.Base
import Data.Bits
import Data.Maybe
import Foreign.C.Error
#if defined(mingw32_HOST_OS)
import Foreign.C.String
import Foreign.Ptr
import Foreign.Marshal.Alloc
import Foreign.Marshal.Utils (with)
import Foreign.Storable
import GHC.IO.SubSystem
import GHC.IO.Windows.Handle (openFileAsTemp)
import GHC.IO.Handle.Windows (mkHandleFromHANDLE)
import GHC.IO.Device as IODevice
import GHC.Real (fromIntegral)
#endif
import Foreign.C.Types
import System.Posix.Internals
import System.Posix.Types
import GHC.Base
import GHC.List
#if !defined(mingw32_HOST_OS)
import GHC.IORef
#endif
import GHC.Num
import GHC.IO hiding ( bracket, onException )
import GHC.IO.IOMode
import qualified GHC.IO.FD as FD
import GHC.IO.Handle
import qualified GHC.IO.Handle.FD as POSIX
import GHC.IO.Handle.Text ( hGetBufSome, hPutStrLn )
import GHC.IO.Exception ( userError )
import GHC.IO.Encoding
import Text.Read
import GHC.IO.StdHandles
import GHC.Show
import GHC.MVar
-- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Standard IO
-- | Write a character to the standard output device
-- (same as 'hPutChar' 'stdout').
putChar :: Char -> IO ()
putChar c = hPutChar stdout c
-- | Write a string to the standard output device
-- (same as 'hPutStr' 'stdout').
putStr :: String -> IO ()
putStr s = hPutStr stdout s
-- | The same as 'putStr', but adds a newline character.
putStrLn :: String -> IO ()
putStrLn s = hPutStrLn stdout s
-- | The 'print' function outputs a value of any printable type to the
-- standard output device.
-- Printable types are those that are instances of class 'Show'; 'print'
-- converts values to strings for output using the 'show' operation and
-- adds a newline.
--
-- For example, a program to print the first 20 integers and their
-- powers of 2 could be written as:
--
-- > main = print ([(n, 2^n) | n <- [0..19]])
print :: Show a => a -> IO ()
print x = putStrLn (show x)
-- | Read a character from the standard input device
-- (same as 'hGetChar' 'stdin').
getChar :: IO Char
getChar = hGetChar stdin
-- | Read a line from the standard input device
-- (same as 'hGetLine' 'stdin').
getLine :: IO String
getLine = hGetLine stdin
-- | The 'getContents' operation returns all user input as a single string,
-- which is read lazily as it is needed
-- (same as 'hGetContents' 'stdin').
getContents :: IO String
getContents = hGetContents stdin
-- | The 'getContents'' operation returns all user input as a single string,
-- which is fully read before being returned
-- (same as 'hGetContents'' 'stdin').
--
-- @since 4.15.0.0
getContents' :: IO String
getContents' = hGetContents' stdin
-- | The 'interact' function takes a function of type @String->String@
-- as its argument. The entire input from the standard input device is
-- passed to this function as its argument, and the resulting string is
-- output on the standard output device.
interact :: (String -> String) -> IO ()
interact f = do s <- getContents
putStr (f s)
-- | The 'readFile' function reads a file and
-- returns the contents of the file as a string.
-- The file is read lazily, on demand, as with 'getContents'.
readFile :: FilePath -> IO String
readFile name = openFile name ReadMode >>= hGetContents
-- | The 'readFile'' function reads a file and
-- returns the contents of the file as a string.
-- The file is fully read before being returned, as with 'getContents''.
--
-- @since 4.15.0.0
readFile' :: FilePath -> IO String
-- There's a bit of overkill here—both withFile and
-- hGetContents' will close the file in the end.
readFile' name = withFile name ReadMode hGetContents'
-- | The computation 'writeFile' @file str@ function writes the string @str@,
-- to the file @file@.
writeFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO ()
writeFile f txt = withFile f WriteMode (\ hdl -> hPutStr hdl txt)
-- | The computation 'appendFile' @file str@ function appends the string @str@,
-- to the file @file@.
--
-- Note that 'writeFile' and 'appendFile' write a literal string
-- to a file. To write a value of any printable type, as with 'print',
-- use the 'show' function to convert the value to a string first.
--
-- > main = appendFile "squares" (show [(x,x*x) | x <- [0,0.1..2]])
appendFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO ()
appendFile f txt = withFile f AppendMode (\ hdl -> hPutStr hdl txt)
-- | The 'readLn' function combines 'getLine' and 'readIO'.
readLn :: Read a => IO a
readLn = getLine >>= readIO
-- | The 'readIO' function is similar to 'read' except that it signals
-- parse failure to the 'IO' monad instead of terminating the program.
readIO :: Read a => String -> IO a
readIO s = case (do { (x,t) <- reads s ;
("","") <- lex t ;
return x }) of
[x] -> return x
[] -> ioError (userError "Prelude.readIO: no parse")
_ -> ioError (userError "Prelude.readIO: ambiguous parse")
-- | The Unicode encoding of the current locale
--
-- This is the initial locale encoding: if it has been subsequently changed by
-- 'GHC.IO.Encoding.setLocaleEncoding' this value will not reflect that change.
localeEncoding :: TextEncoding
localeEncoding = initLocaleEncoding
-- | Computation 'hReady' @hdl@ indicates whether at least one item is
-- available for input from handle @hdl@.
--
-- This operation may fail with:
--
-- * 'System.IO.Error.isEOFError' if the end of file has been reached.
hReady :: Handle -> IO Bool
hReady h = hWaitForInput h 0
-- | Computation 'hPrint' @hdl t@ writes the string representation of @t@
-- given by the 'shows' function to the file or channel managed by @hdl@
-- and appends a newline.
--
-- This operation may fail with:
--
-- * 'System.IO.Error.isFullError' if the device is full; or
--
-- * 'System.IO.Error.isPermissionError' if another system resource limit
-- would be exceeded.
hPrint :: Show a => Handle -> a -> IO ()
hPrint hdl = hPutStrLn hdl . show
-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- fixIO
-- | The implementation of 'Control.Monad.Fix.mfix' for 'IO'. If the function
-- passed to 'fixIO' inspects its argument, the resulting action will throw
-- 'FixIOException'.
fixIO :: (a -> IO a) -> IO a
fixIO k = do
m <- newEmptyMVar
ans <- unsafeDupableInterleaveIO
(readMVar m `catch` \BlockedIndefinitelyOnMVar ->
throwIO FixIOException)
result <- k ans
putMVar m result
return result
-- Note [Blackholing in fixIO]
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- We do our own explicit black holing here, because GHC's lazy
-- blackholing isn't enough. In an infinite loop, GHC may run the IO
-- computation a few times before it notices the loop, which is wrong.
--
-- NOTE2: the explicit black-holing with an IORef ran into trouble
-- with multiple threads (see #5421), so now we use an MVar. We used
-- to use takeMVar with unsafeInterleaveIO. This, however, uses noDuplicate#,
-- which is not particularly cheap. Better to use readMVar, which can be
-- performed in multiple threads safely, and to use unsafeDupableInterleaveIO
-- to avoid the noDuplicate cost.
--
-- What we'd ideally want is probably an IVar, but we don't quite have those.
-- STM TVars look like an option at first, but I don't think they are:
-- we'd need to be able to write to the variable in an IO context, which can
-- only be done using 'atomically', and 'atomically' is not allowed within
-- unsafePerformIO. We can't know if someone will try to use the result
-- of fixIO with unsafePerformIO!
--
-- See also System.IO.Unsafe.unsafeFixIO.
--
-- | The function creates a temporary file in ReadWrite mode.
-- The created file isn\'t deleted automatically, so you need to delete it manually.
--
-- The file is created with permissions such that only the current
-- user can read\/write it.
--
-- With some exceptions (see below), the file will be created securely
-- in the sense that an attacker should not be able to cause
-- openTempFile to overwrite another file on the filesystem using your
-- credentials, by putting symbolic links (on Unix) in the place where
-- the temporary file is to be created. On Unix the @O_CREAT@ and
-- @O_EXCL@ flags are used to prevent this attack, but note that
-- @O_EXCL@ is sometimes not supported on NFS filesystems, so if you
-- rely on this behaviour it is best to use local filesystems only.
--
openTempFile :: FilePath -- ^ Directory in which to create the file
-> String -- ^ File name template. If the template is \"foo.ext\" then
-- the created file will be \"fooXXX.ext\" where XXX is some
-- random number. Note that this should not contain any path
-- separator characters. On Windows, the template prefix may
-- be truncated to 3 chars, e.g. \"foobar.ext\" will be
-- \"fooXXX.ext\".
-> IO (FilePath, Handle)
openTempFile tmp_dir template
= openTempFile' "openTempFile" tmp_dir template False 0o600
-- | Like 'openTempFile', but opens the file in binary mode. See 'openBinaryFile' for more comments.
openBinaryTempFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO (FilePath, Handle)
openBinaryTempFile tmp_dir template
= openTempFile' "openBinaryTempFile" tmp_dir template True 0o600
-- | Like 'openTempFile', but uses the default file permissions
openTempFileWithDefaultPermissions :: FilePath -> String
-> IO (FilePath, Handle)
openTempFileWithDefaultPermissions tmp_dir template
= openTempFile' "openTempFileWithDefaultPermissions" tmp_dir template False 0o666
-- | Like 'openBinaryTempFile', but uses the default file permissions
openBinaryTempFileWithDefaultPermissions :: FilePath -> String
-> IO (FilePath, Handle)
openBinaryTempFileWithDefaultPermissions tmp_dir template
= openTempFile' "openBinaryTempFileWithDefaultPermissions" tmp_dir template True 0o666
openTempFile' :: String -> FilePath -> String -> Bool -> CMode
-> IO (FilePath, Handle)
openTempFile' loc tmp_dir template binary mode
| pathSeparator template
= failIO $ "openTempFile': Template string must not contain path separator characters: "++template
| otherwise = findTempName
where
-- We split off the last extension, so we can use .foo.ext files
-- for temporary files (hidden on Unix OSes). Unfortunately we're
-- below filepath in the hierarchy here.
(prefix, suffix) =
case break (== '.') $ reverse template of
-- First case: template contains no '.'s. Just re-reverse it.
(rev_suffix, "") -> (reverse rev_suffix, "")
-- Second case: template contains at least one '.'. Strip the
-- dot from the prefix and prepend it to the suffix (if we don't
-- do this, the unique number will get added after the '.' and
-- thus be part of the extension, which is wrong.)
(rev_suffix, '.':rest) -> (reverse rest, '.':reverse rev_suffix)
-- Otherwise, something is wrong, because (break (== '.')) should
-- always return a pair with either the empty string or a string
-- beginning with '.' as the second component.
_ -> errorWithoutStackTrace "bug in System.IO.openTempFile"
#if defined(mingw32_HOST_OS)
findTempName = findTempNamePosix <!> findTempNameWinIO
findTempNameWinIO = do
let label = if null prefix then "ghc" else prefix
withCWString tmp_dir $ \c_tmp_dir ->
withCWString label $ \c_template ->
withCWString suffix $ \c_suffix ->
with nullPtr $ \c_ptr -> do
res <- c_createUUIDTempFileErrNo c_tmp_dir c_template c_suffix c_ptr
if not res
then do errno <- getErrno
ioError (errnoToIOError loc errno Nothing (Just tmp_dir))
else do c_p <- peek c_ptr
filename <- peekCWString c_p
free c_p
let flags = fromIntegral mode .&. o_EXCL
handleResultsWinIO filename (flags == o_EXCL)
findTempNamePosix = do
let label = if null prefix then "ghc" else prefix
withCWString tmp_dir $ \c_tmp_dir ->
withCWString label $ \c_template ->
withCWString suffix $ \c_suffix ->
allocaBytes (sizeOf (undefined :: CWchar) * 260) $ \c_str -> do
res <- c_getTempFileNameErrorNo c_tmp_dir c_template c_suffix 0
c_str
if not res
then do errno <- getErrno
ioError (errnoToIOError loc errno Nothing (Just tmp_dir))
else do filename <- peekCWString c_str
handleResultsPosix filename
handleResultsPosix filename = do
let oflags1 = rw_flags .|. o_EXCL
binary_flags
| binary = o_BINARY
| otherwise = 0
oflags = oflags1 .|. binary_flags
fd <- withFilePath filename $ \ f -> c_open f oflags mode
case fd < 0 of
True -> do errno <- getErrno
ioError (errnoToIOError loc errno Nothing (Just tmp_dir))
False ->
do (fD,fd_type) <- FD.mkFD fd ReadWriteMode Nothing{-no stat-}
False{-is_socket-}
True{-is_nonblock-}
enc <- getLocaleEncoding
h <- POSIX.mkHandleFromFD fD fd_type filename ReadWriteMode
False{-set non-block-} (Just enc)
return (filename, h)
handleResultsWinIO filename excl = do
(hwnd, hwnd_type) <- openFileAsTemp filename True excl
mb_codec <- if binary then return Nothing else fmap Just getLocaleEncoding
-- then use it to make a Handle
h <- mkHandleFromHANDLE hwnd hwnd_type filename ReadWriteMode mb_codec
`onException` IODevice.close hwnd
return (filename, h)
foreign import ccall "getTempFileNameErrorNo" c_getTempFileNameErrorNo
:: CWString -> CWString -> CWString -> CUInt -> Ptr CWchar -> IO Bool
foreign import ccall "__createUUIDTempFileErrNo" c_createUUIDTempFileErrNo
:: CWString -> CWString -> CWString -> Ptr CWString -> IO Bool
pathSeparator :: String -> Bool
pathSeparator template = any (\x-> x == '/' || x == '\\') template
output_flags = std_flags
#else /* else mingw32_HOST_OS */
findTempName = do
rs <- rand_string
let filename = prefix ++ rs ++ suffix
filepath = tmp_dir `combine` filename
r <- openNewFile filepath binary mode
case r of
FileExists -> findTempName
OpenNewError errno -> ioError (errnoToIOError loc errno Nothing (Just tmp_dir))
NewFileCreated fd -> do
(fD,fd_type) <- FD.mkFD fd ReadWriteMode Nothing{-no stat-}
False{-is_socket-}
True{-is_nonblock-}
enc <- getLocaleEncoding
h <- POSIX.mkHandleFromFD fD fd_type filepath ReadWriteMode False{-set non-block-} (Just enc)
return (filepath, h)
where
-- XXX bits copied from System.FilePath, since that's not available here
combine a b
| null b = a
| null a = b
| pathSeparator [last a] = a ++ b
| otherwise = a ++ [pathSeparatorChar] ++ b
tempCounter :: IORef Int
tempCounter = unsafePerformIO $ newIORef 0
{-# NOINLINE tempCounter #-}
-- build large digit-alike number
rand_string :: IO String
rand_string = do
r1 <- c_getpid
(r2, _) <- atomicModifyIORef'_ tempCounter (+1)
return $ show r1 ++ "-" ++ show r2
data OpenNewFileResult
= NewFileCreated CInt
| FileExists
| OpenNewError Errno
openNewFile :: FilePath -> Bool -> CMode -> IO OpenNewFileResult
openNewFile filepath binary mode = do
let oflags1 = rw_flags .|. o_EXCL
binary_flags
| binary = o_BINARY
| otherwise = 0
oflags = oflags1 .|. binary_flags
fd <- withFilePath filepath $ \ f ->
c_open f oflags mode
if fd < 0
then do
errno <- getErrno
case errno of
_ | errno == eEXIST -> return FileExists
_ -> return (OpenNewError errno)
else return (NewFileCreated fd)
-- XXX Should use filepath library
pathSeparatorChar :: Char
pathSeparatorChar = '/'
pathSeparator :: String -> Bool
pathSeparator template = pathSeparatorChar `elem` template
output_flags = std_flags .|. o_CREAT
#endif /* mingw32_HOST_OS */
-- XXX Copied from GHC.Handle
std_flags, output_flags, rw_flags :: CInt
std_flags = o_NONBLOCK .|. o_NOCTTY
rw_flags = output_flags .|. o_RDWR
-- $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 'System.IO.Error.isAlreadyInUseError'.
|