On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:11:59PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > =item * > > C<stat> retrieves information about a file on the filesystem. It takes a > string filename or an integer argument of a UNIX file descriptor, and an > integer flag for the type of information requested. It returns an > integer containing the requested information. The following constants > are defined for the type of information requested (see > F<runtime/parrot/include/stat.pasm>): > > To me it seems that stat should also be able to take a PMC representing an > open parrot file handle. I assume that systems exist where we'll be > layering Parrot IO onto underlying OS IO, where the OS uses tokens other > than integers for its files. For example pointers, if miniparrot is built > by layering Parrot IO onto C's stdio.
Actually, I was wondering if that three way distinction is appropriate to quite a few of the IO operations - string is filename, PMC is opaque filehandle object, integer is UNIX file descriptor (and therefore not portable to all platforms) Nicholas Clark
