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Re: Getting a (FILE *) from a file descriptor
- To: Gary Houston <ghouston@easynet.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Getting a (FILE *) from a file descriptor
- From: Ian Grant <I.A.N.Grant@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:09:36 +0100 (BST)
- cc: guile@cygnus.com
Oops, it's fdopen isn't it? I was even staring at the man page. Sorry.
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Ian Grant wrote:
> A library I'm using has a trace function which takes a FILE pointer and
> writes trace output to it. This was easy when guile's ports were based on
> FILEs, but the new port code is over file descriptors. Is there a way to
> open a FILE over an existing fd? Maybe this is a basic Unix question, not
> a guile question at all.
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
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