On Sun, 31 Aug 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 Aug 31, at 10:34, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
I don't follow what you mean. stdin, stdout and stderr are just file
descriptors 0, 1 and 2, aren't they? You can create them as many times as
you want with using that information without causing any confusion or
conflict. Whereas the <- proposal has a "once-only" requirement.
The convention is to provide buffered versions to improve the performance of
file I/O. These buffered filehandles must be created once per runtime
instance (and ideally once per process so multiple runtimes don't find
themselves overwriting each others' output).
In that case it seems that any library that might be used from a runtime
that isn't the top-level of a process should avoid doing IO to those
handles, for fear of producing output corruption?
Ganesh
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