On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 09:44:52AM +0000, "Graham Barr" wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:57:57PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > In Win32, there is no such thing _really_ as a "file descriptor" (integer).
> Don't confuse the issue of read/sysread with FILE*/integer. I know that is
> what it is on UNIX but perl does not require it. The difference from
> perl's perspective is buffered vs raw.
> Just because MS does not have an integer file descriptor does not mean that
> sysread cannot be done.
Actually I never meant to suggest that I _liked_ the way it is now... :-)
Just that if sysread() were changed, it would have to somehow emulate
the errno conditions and such to keep code working.
mark
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