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Re: FileDescriptor suggestion [Was: FYI: Patch: java nio file locking]
- From: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>
- To: Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>
- Cc: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>, Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:49:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: FileDescriptor suggestion [Was: FYI: Patch: java nio file locking]
- References: <20040124101917.GA14578@mail.konqueror.de> <85YURL72PMBD9TGG710975NL3VVT.40127669@p733>
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:43:05AM -0600, Mohan Embar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> >I more and more I think the idea from Anthony Green for
> >PlatformDescriptor gets more needed then ever. FileDescriptor would be
> >very minimal and all the platform dependant stuff would go into a
> >platform specific class.
> >
> >http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/classpath/2003-04/msg00092.html
> >
> >I think thats the start of the discussion about it.
>
> The thread also picked up here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q3/threads.html#00721
>
> >When we change FileDescriptor's behaviour we need to talk about this
> >with the classpath people too because we share the implementation of
> >classes using FileDescriptor and they would be "affected" too ;-).
>
> I want PlatformFileDescriptor too, because I think we shouldn't be using
> ints for file descriptors and this will break on Win64.
And all other 64-bit archs, ia-64, amd64, ....
Michael