Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!deven From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 21:42:39 GMT References: <0776.AA0776@julie> <6275@cbmvax.UUCP> <3626@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Thomas Corzine) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab, Troy NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 15 Mar 89 12:13:59 GMT In article <3626@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >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? Why can't you, if the program you pass it to closes it? >I can deal with untracked memory, but there's ever so much UNIXy code out >there that expects UNIX file descriptor semantics... Surely so. Got a simple example in mind? Deven -- ------- shadow@pawl.rpi.edu ------- Deven Thomas Corzine --------------------- Cogito shadow@acm.rpi.edu 2346 15th Street Pi-Rho America ergo userfxb6@rpitsmts.bitnet Troy, NY 12180-2306 (518) 272-5847 sum... In the immortal words of Socrates: "I drank what?" ...I think.