Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:21:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dup3() - I've thought it over and decided... Message-ID: <199703192121.OAA12436@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20163.858754119@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 18, 97 10:48:39 pm
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> It's a hack. Forget about it. :-) > > That said, I think that there's a need for a more generalized I/O > model which allows this kind of in-flight disconnection and > reconnection of I/O handles a process might have open, but it needs to > be a lot more involved than just thwapping over somebody's file > handles. :-) There needs to be some mechanism for flushing or > discarding pending I/O on reconnect, for one thing, and it needs to > play friendly with stdio. > > I'll think about the problem some more.. :) Gee, too bad descriptors aren't implemented using process logical names that you can modify from other processes... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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