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Re: JNI/CNI Revisited
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: JNI/CNI Revisited |
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01 Mar 2003 13:12:46 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron M Renn <address@hidden> writes:
Aaron> Right now Classpath just hardcodes these as FD 0, 1, and 2.
Aaron> Probably not a good idea. The nativeInit() method was one I
Aaron> envisioned being called as part of static initialization a la
Aaron> gcj, and thus it could set up these values.
For some reason I assumed your `nativeInit' method had to do with
initializing an instance -- but of course open() can be used for that.
Aaron> Interesting that it was done for performance reason. I thought
Aaron> perhaps it was becuase we could not always guarantee that we
Aaron> could determine the current file position without tracking it.
Aaron> I think Classpath does something like lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR)
Aaron> but this may not be portable.
Here's the thread:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2003-q1/msg00013.html
We were doing 3 lseek()s per FileDescriptor.seek operation.
Tom