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From: Alexandre Frey <frey@paris.ensmp.fr>
To: Bruno.Verlyck@inria.fr
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Objective Caml's Unix libraries
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 10:52 MET	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0w57Bp-0009bVC@toxic.ensmp.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199703121950.UAA13512@kickapoo.inria.fr> (Bruno.Verlyck@inria.fr)

Bruno,

> In english: Xavier's arguments are very strong.  But within them (and
> the Unix library), I can't write a /bin/sh clone, because of >&3
> (here, and for Pawel.Wojciechowski, it would be enough to add a fun
> fileno : filedesc -> int, like the stdio macro) and <&3 -- but I
> thought about it for only 5 min.
As a hack, you can always write this:
let fileno (fd: file_descr): int = (Obj.magic fd)

But of course, you loose the safety of the abstract `file_descr' type.

--
Alexandre.




      reply	other threads:[~1997-03-13 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-11 23:05 Pawel Wojciechowski
1997-03-12  9:41 ` Xavier Leroy
1997-03-12 19:50   ` Bruno.Verlyck
1997-03-13  9:52     ` Alexandre Frey [this message]

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