From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Adding streams for standard out and standard err
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:35:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24m72n3re.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eg6nysug.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:21:43 +0300")
>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
EZ> Can we take a step back and talk about the need and the use cases?
At least for Eshell, I have wanted the ability to open and read/write directly
to file handles before. The main problem I see is problems such as exhaustion,
since we'd then have another resource being held open and managed by Emacs.
The downsides may not be worth the limited use cases.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-02 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-20 22:48 Adding streams for standard out and standard err Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 7:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-21 18:42 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-25 7:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-07-21 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 14:40 ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-21 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 19:01 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 18:52 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-21 20:13 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-22 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-22 15:43 ` Phillip Lord
2016-07-21 22:15 ` Davis Herring
2016-08-02 23:35 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-07-22 14:48 ` Phil Sainty
2016-07-22 15:42 ` Phillip Lord
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