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Re: Adding streams for standard out and standard err


From: John Wiegley
Subject: Re: Adding streams for standard out and standard err
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:35:17 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.95 (darwin)

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

EZ> Can we take a step back and talk about the need and the use cases?

At least for Eshell, I have wanted the ability to open and read/write directly
to file handles before. The main problem I see is problems such as exhaustion,
since we'd then have another resource being held open and managed by Emacs.
The downsides may not be worth the limited use cases.

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