Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles

[Tim Jenness]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:

> > sysopen() should probably be included in the list as well.
> 
> Good point.
> 

In fact, you may as well go the whole way and say that all IO is done via
optimised IO objects (ie include sockets etc). IO::File and friends
without the overhead. All of the current open functions simply pass these
objects around.

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Tim Jenness
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