There was once work on an ISO standard for a "Software Bus", a set of
relatively low-level primitive operations that would do just about
everything you'd need to talk to an OS and which could be easily
implemented with a lightweight software layer on just about any OS. It
was torpedooed by the
Does anyone know a good reference to cite for this information? Like
the details of TCP, I think this is something better explained by an
external reference than in the Racket reference manual.
Meanwhile, I'll look into smoothing the path from functions like
`with-output-to-file' to information ab
Hi Marijn,
At least on Unix/Linux, a file (inode) has some distinct identity
apart from its content.
If a file is truncated, this is observed by all processes which have the file
open. In addition, all hard-links to the file are also truncated (since
these are just references to the same inode).
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Hi,
In the reference in section 12.1.5 File Ports[1], open-output-file is
defined as having an optional keyword argument #:exist which can have
one of 8 different values. The same options are used for a number of
wrapper functions, among which with-ou
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