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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KProcess overhaul
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-04-15 17:46:18
Message-ID: 20060415174618.GB17694 () ugly ! local
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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).

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