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Re: RAM FileDescriptor

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: RAM FileDescriptor
Date 2012-10-15 14:34 -0400
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On 10/15/2012 2:08 PM, bob smith wrote:
> Let's say you have a function that plays a movie that
> is passed in as a FileDescriptor.

     Okay: "You have a function that ..."

     Why would you want to write such a method?  As I understand
the Javadoc, the method could only get at the bytes behind the
FileDescriptor by constructing a FileInputStream from it, then
reading the FileInputStream.  Why not have the method take a
FileInputStream in the first place?  Better yet, why not have
it take an InputStream, and not insist on the "file" part?

> Is there any way to load the movie into RAM and get a
> FileDescriptor for the RAM?

     Probably not.  A method that took an InputStream could,
of course, be given a ByteArrayInputStream -- but if you're
dead-set on using FileDescriptor, I think you're out of luck.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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RAM FileDescriptor bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-10-15 11:08 -0700
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-15 11:27 -0700
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-15 14:34 -0400
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-15 14:41 -0400
    Re: RAM FileDescriptor David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-10-15 15:07 -0400
      Re: RAM FileDescriptor Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-15 12:59 -0700
        Re: RAM FileDescriptor Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-10-17 11:45 -0400
          Re: RAM FileDescriptor David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-10-17 15:08 -0400
    Re: RAM FileDescriptor Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-15 15:25 -0400
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-15 16:22 -0400
    Re: RAM FileDescriptor Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-15 16:26 -0400
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-10-16 12:40 -0600
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Arne Vajhoej <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-10-17 11:43 -0400
  Re: RAM FileDescriptor Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-10-17 17:55 +0200

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