network

Low-level networking interface

Version on this page:	2.6.3.2@rev:1
LTS Haskell 21.13:	3.1.4.0@rev:1
Stackage Nightly 2023-09-25:	3.1.4.0@rev:1
Latest on Hackage:	3.1.4.0@rev:1

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BSD-3-Clause licensed

Maintained by Kazu Yamamoto, Evan Borden

This version can be pinned in stack with:network-2.6.3.2@sha256:dd5ba2b71b4ece44d95c68b6c525d3a0f8055875f5a1c7d3432ce20dbc26439c,3311

Module documentation for 2.6.3.2

Network
- Network.BSD
- Network.Socket
  - Network.Socket.ByteString
    - Network.Socket.ByteString.Lazy
  - Network.Socket.Internal

Depends on 3 packages(full list with versions):

base, bytestring, unix

Used by 130 packages in lts-6.35(full list with versions):

acid-state, agentx, airship, amqp, avers, aws, BlastHTTP, bson, cabal-install, cabal-src, cgi, clckwrks, clckwrks-cli, codex, conduit-extra, connection, consul-haskell, courier, cql, cql-io, darcs, DAV, dbus, debian, distributed-process-simplelocalnet, distributed-process-tests, dns, ekg, ekg-statsd, EntrezHTTP, eventstore, git-annex, graylog, hakyll, HandsomeSoup, happstack-server, happstack-server-tls, HaskellNet, HaskellNet-SSL, haxr, and many more

`network`

To build this package using Cabal directly from git, you must run autoreconf before the usual Cabal build steps (configure/build/install). autoreconf is included in the GNU Autoconf tools. There is no need to run the configure script: the setup configure step will do this for you.

Support Policy

GHC

network’s GHC policy supports 3 stable versions. The current stable version and two previous stable versions are supported.

Hugs, JHC, UHC

network does not officially support these compilers.

Changes

Version 2.6.3.2

Zero memory of sockaddr_un if abstract socket #220
Improving error messages #232
Allow non-blocking file descriptors via setNonBlockIfNeeded #242
Update config.{guess,sub} to latest version #244
Rename my_inet_ntoa to avoid symbol conflicts #228
Test infrastructure improvements #219 #217 #218
House keeping and cleanup #238 #237

Version 2.6.3.1

Reverse breaking exception change in Network.Socket.ByteString.recv #215

Version 2.6.3.0

New maintainers: Evan Borden (@eborden) and Kazu Yamamoto (@kazu-yamamoto). The maintainer for a long period, Johan Tibell (@tibbe) stepped down. Thank you, Johan, for your hard work for a long time.
New APIs: ntohl, htonl,hostAddressToTuple{,6} and tupleToHostAddress{,6}. #210
Added a Read instance for PortNumber. #145
We only set the IPV6_V6ONLY flag to 0 for stream and datagram socket types, as opposed to all of them. This makes it possible to use ICMPv6. #180 #181
Work around GHC bug #12020. Socket errors no longer cause segfaults or hangs on Windows. #192
Various documentation improvements and the deprecated pragmas. #186 #201 #205 #206 #211
Various internal improvements. #193 #200

Version 2.6.2.1

Regenerate configure and HsNetworkConfig.h.in.
Better detection of CAN sockets.

Version 2.6.2.0

Add support for TCP_USER_TIMEOUT.
Don’t conditionally export the SockAddr constructors.
Add isSupportSockAddr to allow checking for supported address types at runtime.