[project @ 2001-05-01 11:51:50 by simonmar]

Add an item about the networking library rewrite.

diff --git a/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-02-notes.sgml b/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-02-notes.sgml
index 81e7fb6..144f79f 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-02-notes.sgml
+++ b/ghc/docs/users_guide/5-02-notes.sgml
@@ -13,9 +13,22 @@
     <title>User-visible library changes</title>
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
+       <para>The <literal>SocketPrim</literal> and
+       <literal>BSD</literal> modules in the <literal>net</literal>
+       package have been re-written to use the FFI, be more portable,
+       and be more thread-safe.  There are minor user-visible
+       changes: the functions <function>writeSocket</function>,
+       <function>readSocket</function> and
+       <function>readSocketAll</function> have been removed (use
+       <function>socketToHandle</function> and
+       <literal>Handle</literal> operations instead).</para>
+      </listitem>
+
+      <listitem>
        <para>New function: <function>Exception.throwDynTo</function>.
        See <xref linkend="sec-Dynamic-Exceptions">.</para>
       </listitem>
+
     </itemizedlist>
   </sect2>