Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Keywords: Unix V7 Minix AmigaDOS shells ... CATS? Randell?? :-) Message-ID: <3626@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 15 Mar 89 12:13:59 GMT References: <0776.AA0776@julie> <6275@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 12 In article <6275@cbmvax.UUCP>, jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: > You can't dup() a filehandle. Ah, pretty please. If you do nothing else in 1.4 could you let us dup() filehandles, and track them so I can pass a FH to a process and not have to worry about getting it back to close it? I can deal with untracked memory, but there's ever so much UNIXy code out there that expects UNIX file descriptor semantics... -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U`