Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> >> The two don't have to be competing.  Instead I expect they'd be
> >> used together (by extending your proposal to allow a file-handle
> >> as "output port").
> > There is not much of an incentive to have explicit file handles if
> > you can establish all of the necessary redirections without them.
> 
> Piping the output of one process to the input of another, maybe?

Academical right now.  You know the complicated procedure of pipe(2),
fork, selective closes and/or dup2 calls needed to properly create a
working pipeline?  I am afraid that "file-handle" does not buy us
that at all.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum