Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL

Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:46:05PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>> >And the current state of FD should have been queried when PerlIO is
>> >created (may be this is done already?).
>> 
>> Querying the state needs Configure-oid probing to see how the CRTL flags 
>> that state.
>
>No need to Configure.  There is win32ish.h etc.

It is Configure-oid - because Borland, VC++ and Mingw32 all have different 
header files - so you at least need a 3-way #ifdef nest.

>
>> There isn't a clean API. Switching modes other than 
>> just-after-open is not reliable on most CRTLs.
>
>Existence of non-reliable CRTLs should not make it not work anywhere.

Agreed.

>
>Ilya
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• [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Ilya Zakharevich
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by vkonovalov
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Vadim Konovalov
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Andy Dougherty
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by vkonovalov
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by vkonovalov
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Ilya Zakharevich
• RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by vkonovalov
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• [perl #7220] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Jesse Luehrs via RT
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL by Jarkko Hietaniemi