From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Too detailed public view of POSIX.IO.File_Descriptor in Florist?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:55:11 +0200
Date: 2007-10-14T20:55:11+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ygeodf1h6gg.fsf@hugsarin.dmusyd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4711fb9e$0$7203$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net
Peter C. Chapin wrote:
> Thus, in C,
>
> close(0);
> open("some/file.txt", O_RDONLY);
Or in Ada:
Close (Standard_Input);
File := Open ("some/file.txt", Read_Only);
> Now when the program reads its standard input it actually gets
> some/file.txt.
Yes.
I have never actually used the semantics of Open this way. If I want
to transfer a file to one of the predefined file descriptors, I tend
to use Duplicate_and_Close, but I can see your point.
Greetings,
Jacob
--
"No! The universe is ours."
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2007-10-14 5:05 Too detailed public view of POSIX.IO.File_Descriptor in Florist? Jacob Sparre Andersen
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