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Subject: Re: object.enable() anti-pattern
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> | No, I've created a file descriptor, which is, by definition, an integer.
> | It has nothing to do with C.  This is all defined by the POSIX
> | interface.  For example, the getdtablesize(2) man page says:
> |
> | "The entries in the descriptor table are numbered with small integers
> | starting at 0.  The call getdtablesize() returns the size of this table."
> [... snip ...]
>
> I'm with Steven here.
>
> You've made a number that can be used with calls that access the
> OS file descriptor table. But it isn't a file descriptor. (Yes, the
> in-program number is just a number either way.)

Steven, don't be misled.  POSIX is not the model to look to -- it does
not acknowledge that files are actual objects that reside on a piece
of hardware.  It is not simply an integer.

Mark