Re: Design issue: Virtualized filesystem

Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:57:23 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.e.general
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On Feb 10, 2011, at 18:15, Ben Laurie wrote:

> This sounds like a FIle object doesn't map onto a UNIX file descriptor
> (which can't be asked for its filename and may not even have one).

Correct. File descriptors are “open files”; these are “files in the  
filesystem” and, in fact, are really just thin wrappers around  
pathnames (java.io.File).

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>