At 12:33 PM 8/14/2003, Cliff Woolley wrote: >On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > Sure... take a look at apr_os_file_get() which is declared in >> > apr_portable.h >> >> This answer is, I'm surmising, unfortunately incomplete. That is, on >> Unix systems, apr_os_file_get() will do the trick, but the OS file >> descriptor mechanism on Windows platforms is a HANDLE (as you can also >> see in apr_portable.h), so there's a little more work to be done there. > >Oh, well, yes, that's certainly true. He said specifically that he was >passing a file descriptor to the Unix API, so I assumed he meant he was >only running on Unix. Perhaps that was not a valid assumption.
I think the assumption was right - but I'm thinking that fd's are (in theory) entirely posix, as are FILE's. We might want to consider these two as cross-platform, posix implementations. So where we have apr_portable.h today (badly named ;-) we might want to have an apr_posix.h to implement whatever conversions we can in terms of pure posix types. Bill
