Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Adding file_descr support to IO?

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering if anyone would mind me adding a couple of functions
> with signatures
>
>      val input_file_descr : Unix.file_descr -> IO.input;
>      val output_file_descr : Unix.file_descr -> unit IO.output;
>
> to the IO module? The idea is to use
>
>     Unix.read
>     Unix.single_write
>     Unix.close
>
> to read/write directly to/from the file descriptor. There shouldn't
> really be any platform-specific issues since these functions of the Unix
> module are supported on all platforms.
>
> Any objections?

Yes.
It creates a dependency on Unix module, which force the user using IO to
link with unix.cma / cmxa.
I would prefer theses to go into an ExtUnix module.

Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse