Re: GOOPS Terminal Class - RnRS POSIX support

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>:

>> From: Marko Rauhamaa <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 11:08:23 +0300
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> Michael Tiedtke <address@hidden>:
>> > POSIX isn't that important or useful anymore but "full access to
>> > POSIX system calls" it has never been.
>> 
>> What I'd like is a way to communicate open file descriptors between
>> processes.
>
> That's highly non-portable, and is bound to produce Guile code that
> works only on some systems.

I'd like to produce Guile code that works on Linux. As it stands, I
can't.

Sending file descriptors over Unix domain sockets is quite portable,
however. Guile does support AF_UNIX, only it doesn't support control
messages.


Marko