ioeGetErrorString

From my understanding the Haskell reports,
ioeGetErrorString 
should return the failure string. To quote:

  For "user" errors (those which are raised using
fail), the 
  string returned by ioeGetErrorString is the argument
that 
  was passed to fail

On version 5.04, compiled under SunOS, 
ioeGetErrorString seems to return the result of `show`ing
this string. Compiling and running:

>
> import IO
> 
> main = fail "foo\ngoo" `catch` (putStrLn .
ioeGetErrorString)
>

results in:

"foo\ngoo"

as opposed to:

foo
goo

Thanks,
Gordon
gordon.pace@imag.fr

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Trac field	Value
Version	5.04
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	ResolvedFixed
Component	None
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