On 2009 Feb 15, at 22:50, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote:+=item sysopenI vote for sysopen (and all other sys functions) to be wiped out of existence.Disagree -- I think these belong in IO::Unbuffered. Maybe we could make that optional, though
I think sysopen etc. should go away, instead allowing open() to specify unbuffered. In general anything that exposes a system file descriptor is an abstraction violation (unless in a module which is intended to do so; IO::Posix?).
The original intent behind sysopen() was to allow system file descriptor mode flags to be used; this was a workaround for perl5's open being insufficiently flexible.
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