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The new module System.Posix.ByteString provides exactly the same API
as System.Posix, except that:
- There is a new type: RawFilePath = ByteString
- All functions mentioning FilePath in the System.Posix API
use RawFilePath in the System.Posix.ByteString API
- RawFilePaths are not subject to Unicode locale encoding and
decoding, unlike FilePaths. They are the exact bytes passed to and
returned from the underlying POSIX API.
- Similarly for functions that deal in environment
strings (System.Posix.Env): these use untranslated ByteStrings
in System.Posix.Environment
- There is a new function
System.Posix.ByteString.getArgs :: [ByteString]
returning the raw untranslated arguments as passed to exec() when
the program was started.
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Simon Marlow