From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp Date: 10 May 2004 17:59:37 +0200 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 1084206324 2036 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 16:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:25:24 +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 18:25:00 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 1BNDaO-0000lw-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 18:25:00 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNDaO-00056K-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 18:25:00 +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 1BNDWq-0001U8-V5 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:21:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDWM-0001JG-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDUY-0000rq-DQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 12:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDBr-0005lr-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 11:59:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BNDBq-00018z-PI; Mon, 10 May 2004 11:59:39 -0400 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <87pt9cuzyo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:23046 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23046 Stefan Monnier writes: > > I had posted a proposal to change start-process instead some time ago > > that would have allowed for efficient I/O redirection under eshell. > > 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum