Re: [Sbcl-devel] proposal: SBCL low-level unix interface

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

Marco Antoniotti <ma...@cs...> writes:

>>> What I'm not sure about: the file descriptor functions (open, isatty,
>>> etc) use streams instead of fds.  I _think_ I'd rather have file
>>> descriptors.
>>
>> Python provides both, sort of.  The standard 'file' object is
>> implemented on top of stdio.  The "os" module provides "open", "write",
>> etc. that work on file descriptors.
>
> The question is: when do you really really really need descriptors?
> Using STREAMS seems to make much more sense to me.

One thing Python does in some situations -- e.g. fcntl, tcgetattr --
is accept both.  Seems to work.

Oh, and wrapping ioctl is fun :-)

Cheers,
M.

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