Hallo, Mike!

*** Am 23. Januar 1997 um 07:10 schrieb Mike Burgett an Mike Bilow:

 MB> Noooo... I don't think that's it.  I seem to specifically recall that this
 MB> was for taking an HFILE returned from DosOpen (and presumably
 MB> DosCreatePipe) and pushing it back into the C-RTL's file descriptors... It
 MB> even included a warning, as I recall, that after doing this, you shouldn't
 MB> use any DosXXXX functions to access the handle, and had to use fclose() on
 MB> the returned FILE * (or presumably close() on the fd) to close it.

emx+gcc offers such a function, called _imphandle. It is intended for use
with sockets, but I guess it could work with other types of system handles.
emx+gcc tries to go the unix way where there is a unified "handle
space", i.e. the same type of handle for all types of communication,
be it files, sockets, pipes, devices etc.


Tschau...Thomas

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