From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp Date: 10 May 2004 12:36:59 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87pt9cuzyo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084209282 11525 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 17:14:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:14:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 19:14:21 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNEM8-0006GG-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNEM8-0006Gb-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 19:14:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDoB-00048D-3W for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:39:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDnm-00047S-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDn9-000414-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.204.24.67] (helo=mercure.iro.umontreal.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDmX-0003tu-U7; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from asado.iro.umontreal.ca (asado.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.24.84]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0C221249; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by asado.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5AB358C6AE; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-4.9, requis 5, BAYES_00 -4.90) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23048 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23048 >> The two don't have to be competing. Instead I expect they'd be >> used together (by extending your proposal to allow a file-handle >> as "output port"). > There is not much of an incentive to have explicit file handles if > you can establish all of the necessary redirections without them. Piping the output of one process to the input of another, maybe? Stefan