Sujet : Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
De : jameskuyper (at) *nospam* alumni.caltech.edu (James Kuyper)
Groupes : comp.unix.programmerDate : 25. Aug 2024, 16:48:48
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On 8/25/24 06:32, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
On 2024-08-25 09:50, Sebastian wrote:
In comp.unix.programmer Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
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!
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UNIX domain sockets support the passing of file descriptors between
processes.
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File descriptor (a pointer to) is not file number.
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You cannot pass number 1 simply because 1 is already in use.
True, but since passing the file descriptor provides you with all you
need to achieve the same functionality, that distinction is unimportant.
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