Re: Remove file descriptors completely from srfi-170?
Lassi Kortela
(10 Sep 2020 15:55 UTC)
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Re: Remove file descriptors completely from srfi-170? Duy Nguyen (10 Sep 2020 15:59 UTC)
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open-file and fd->*port
Lassi Kortela
(10 Sep 2020 16:05 UTC)
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Re: open-file and fd->*port
Duy Nguyen
(10 Sep 2020 16:16 UTC)
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Re: open-file and fd->*port
Shiro Kawai
(10 Sep 2020 17:34 UTC)
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Re: open-file and fd->*port
Duy Nguyen
(10 Sep 2020 17:41 UTC)
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Re: open-file and fd->*port
John Cowan
(10 Sep 2020 18:19 UTC)
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Re: Remove file descriptors completely from srfi-170? Duy Nguyen 10 Sep 2020 15:59 UTC
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 10:55 PM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote: > > > Why not combine open-file and > > fd->*port in one? All other procedures either take pathname or a port. > > POSIX open() takes a whole bunch of flags which are relevant when > opening a pathname and don't have much to do with converting an > already-existing fd to a Scheme port. > <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html> So the new open-file also takes a bunch of flags and returns a port. Since there's no way for you to get hold of an fd in the first place (unless you count on special numbers 0, 1 and 2), converting an already-existing fd to a Scheme port is a moot point. -- Duy