In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > > IMHO the universal handle (for e.g. IPC related handles and file handles) is > > not a portable concept to begin with. > > I think the concept of a handle as an opaque type is universal. What > isn't safe is any assumption of consistent behaviour, e.g. that select() > may be applied to any type of handle or that a program's stdin/stdout > might in practice be implemented by a socket.
Before that, I don't even think sizeof(any handle)=constant for a given target is a valid assumption. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
