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From: Dave Benjamin <dave@ramenlabs.com>
To: Robert Fischer <robert.fischer@smokejumperit.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] file_desc
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:15:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486A4A24.2060900@ramenlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486A40C9.2020807@smokejumperit.com>

Robert Fischer wrote:
> Is there a way to convert a file_descr to/from an int in OCaml?  The type is abstract, and there
> doesn't seem to be an obvious answer.

If you don't want to use Obj.magic, there is also the Netsys module from 
Ocamlnet, which defines these two functions as C extensions:

     val int_of_file_descr : Unix.file_descr -> int
     val file_descr_of_int : int -> Unix.file_descr

Dave


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-01 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01 14:35 file_desc Robert Fischer
2008-07-01 14:56 ` [Caml-list] file_desc SerP
2008-07-01 14:59 ` Mark Shinwell
2008-07-01 15:15 ` Dave Benjamin [this message]

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