From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA07656; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:45:09 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07559 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:45:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g5CFj5b09549; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 17:45:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g5CFixZr024519; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:44:59 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp102.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.102]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id BAA19725; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:44:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D076C78.9070204@ozemail.com.au> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:44:56 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Leroy CC: Max Kirillov , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix.file_descr -> int ??? References: <20020611213158.A680@max.home> <20020611174527.A14450@pauillac.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Xavier Leroy wrote: >>Suddently, I'm unable to recover file descriptor from Unix's >>file_descr. At least, Unix module does not contain any >>function doing that and the type is abstract. >>What was a reason for the limitaion? >> >But what would >you want to do this? > That has a simple answer: you have an external C function which requires it. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners