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Yesterday, Peter Samuelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Yeah, I agree, 'file/stream' is lousy syntax as well. If it weren't
> for the possibility of having streams on directories, it would almost
> be acceptible. I still don't know which (':' or '/') is the worse
> hack.
Me neither :/
> As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I can't think of *any* clean way
> to shoehorn forks into nice, transparent posix calls. It really wants
> a new API.
Likewise. This was my standpoint the last time around - a clear concise
portable API for accessing streams (even if it *started out*
Linux-specific) - without imposing silly semantics on existing
applications which currently ignore streams anyway.
Mo.
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