Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2000/05/30/09:40:33
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> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Mark E. wrote:
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> > I came up with a way, and I use it with Bash 2.04 to provide a function that
> > essentially marks a file handle as 'remove-on-close'. I then use this
> > function to implement a pipe() replacement. This all works, but it also
> > requires changes to dup and dup2 to handle FSEXTs.
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> Using FSEXT is a possibility, but I'm not sure it's a good way for a
> library feature (as opposed to an application-level code). As discussed
> here on several opportunities, FSEXT needs some work to make it suitable
> for internal use by libc itself.
>
An FSEXT is just the way I chose to go implement it. If it were internal and
integrated into libc, I wouldn't need to use an FSEXT.
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