Re: [Sbcl-devel] Bug & patch: pathname should work for all file-streams

[Nikodemus S. <tsi...@cc...>]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Christophe Rhodes wrote:

> Given this, I propose the following instead.  It is not completely
> portable, in that POSIX does not specify the presence of /dev/fd/N; on
> the other hand, the failure on systems which do not provide /dev/fd/N
> (of the systems I was able to find, only Tru64) is not spectacular.  I
> haven't tested whether this builds, either.

From correctness POV this would be OK, but as far as usefull behaviour is
concerned /dev/pts/X is preferable to me: that can be usefully passed to
another process, unlike /dev/fd/X.

How about falling back to returning NIL if no unixoid filename usefull
to another process is available (as with pipes)?

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus