Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > I had posted a proposal to change start-process instead some time ago
> > that would have allowed for efficient I/O redirection under eshell.
> 
> The two don't have to be competing.  Instead I expect they'd be
> used together (by extending your proposal to allow a file-handle
> as "output port").

There is not much of an incentive to have explicit file handles if
you can establish all of the necessary redirections without them.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum