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

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.