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

[Bardur A. <lis...@sc...>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:51:29AM +0100, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> > 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.

Ok, no problem. I'll post an ExtUnix module for review in
a little while. :)

Cheers,

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