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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Too detailed public view of POSIX.IO.File_Descriptor in Florist?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:55:11 +0200
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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
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