From kde-core-devel Sat Apr 15 17:46:18 2006 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:46:18 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KProcess overhaul Message-Id: <20060415174618.GB17694 () ugly ! local> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=114512318100509 On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:37:15PM -0500, Matt Rogers wrote: > Aren't file descriptors *nix specific? If they are, that could be why > they're against it. > both windows and OS X (a unix at its core) provide file descriptors. however, i guess on one of them fds are not the preferred method, so tt built QFile around the other method, making anything relying on fds non-orthogonal to the rest of the api (e.g., can't pass in an arbitrary QFile as a redirection endpoint). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.