This thread was almost about Python once

[Clarence Gardner]

Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> wrote:
: *) on Linux systems, passing an open fd is actually fairly easy and fairly
: compatible; old (or perhaps just all) interpreters could be started with
: '/proc/fd/3' as the script. There was talk about this on the linux kernel
: list a year or so ago (and probably more often before and after that) but
: the problem was, and probably still is, that it would break interpreters
: that rely on opening a filedescriptor right after starting and assuming it
: will be fd 3.

What interpreter is so braindead as to assume that particular file
descriptors are available when it is invoked?  And even if there are
any, catering to them is worse than all of the Microsoft backward-
compatibility-to-1985 hacks put together, IMNSHO.

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Clarence Gardner
Software Engineer
NetLojix Communications    NASDAQ:NETX
clarence at netlojix.com