"Richard L. Hamilton" wrote:
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> >From my point of view, function-call-like APIs that deal with binary
> data, preferably available in both C and perl (the latter for those for
> whom everything has to be some sort of script), are preferable to
> new _text_ pseudo files that then need to be parsed from text back to
> something machine readable, which for particularly _human_ readable
> formats, may not be both efficient and unambiguous.
> (along those lines, it would be handy if there were a ksh93 extension
> that could map C data structures to ksh93 nested variables (using
> the API for the memory model of the ksh93 binary), not unlike what can
> be done for perl like that)
BTW: Is there any exiting functionality ? If it isn't too big I can
"manually" write some bindings for ksh93 (e.g. if there is any interest
please subscribe me to the project list and make a draft which
functionality you need (I already did similar work with the "poll"
builtin (which works like poll(2) from the shell level) for someone else
within Sun...) ...) ...
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Bye,
Roland
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