lawrence_danna added a comment.

In D67792#1676556 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D67792#1676556>, @labath wrote:

> It doesn't look like this will work on windows (I find no trace of fcntl in 
> the windows docs). Even if we find a way to guess the open mode on windows 
> somehow, I am not convinced that is the right way forward here. I would 
> rather we find a way to fix the api so that it is harder to use incorrectly, 
> then trying to guess what should happen when the api is used in a potentially 
> incorrect way.
>
> What is original reason you needed this patch for? Could we just return a 
> null FILE* if the user didn't call SetOptions?


While I was writing tests for my python files branch, I first tested the simple 
case of creating a SBFile with a descriptor, and found to my surprise that 
almost nothing in LLDB could actually write to that file, because everything 
expected a FILE* stream and it couldn't make one.

Should I just add an options argument to SetDescriptor instead?


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