Re: r25371 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-18 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote: The only difference I could see was that shutdown allows changing the readability and writeability. While I agree that this functionality

Re: r25371 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-18 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote: > >The only difference I could see was that shutdown allows changing the > readability and writeability. While I agree that this functionality should > be exposed, (see my next update)

Re: r25371 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-18 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Leon Timmermans wrote: I'd like to note that FileDescriptors are not reserved unices. I know Windows also has them (though they aren't commonly used), and quite possibly others too. Will be fixed in next update. Also, IO::Socket.close() is not an alternative for

Re: r25371 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-18 Thread Leon Timmermans
I'd like to note that FileDescriptors are not reserved unices. I know Windows also has them (though they aren't commonly used), and quite possibly others too. Also, IO::Socket.close() is not an alternative for a shutdown() method. They do subtly different things. IO::Socket should support both IMH