Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: While learning PERL... a suggestion Keywords: perl file learn suggest Message-ID: <1991Jan22.104050.27699@convex.com> Date: 22 Jan 91 10:40:50 GMT References: <1991Jan21.214453.25039@convex.com> <119440@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Jan22.054732.14797@convex.com> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com It occurs to me that rather than adding sysopen(), merely overloading the existing open() would be better. Would you want just flags or mode as well? And I bet you still really want an underlying open(2) followed by an fdopen(3), right? --tom [I'm just getting these all in because Larry and Randal don't have terminals in their hotel rooms as I do. :-] -- "Hey, did you hear Stallman has replaced /vmunix with /vmunix.el? Now he can finally have the whole O/S built-in to his editor like he always wanted!" --me (Tom Christiansen )