Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:32:10 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

On 2024-08-25 09:50, Sebastian wrote:
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In comp.unix.programmer Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:

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Windows did many things wrong, but accessing file descriptors by
numbers is beyond even Windows. In Windows a file is an OS object. You
access it getting an opaque handle to. Note that a handle can be
marshaled from one process to another. Try that with process-local
numbers!

 
UNIX domain sockets support the passing of file descriptors between
processes.

 
File descriptor (a pointer to) is not file number.
 
You cannot pass number 1 simply because 1 is already in use.

You implied above that “accessing descriptors by numbers” is somehow a bad
thing, then when it is pointed out that *nix doesn’t actually work that
way, you somehow insist that is a drawback as well.