[Ecls-list] [Patch] gray:stream-file-descriptor

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> writes:

> stream-fd only makes sense with serve-event. Then, why not storing the
> defgeneric _there_? That a generic function is related to gray streams does
> not mean that it has to be in the file src/clos/streams.lsp Besides this, I
> would add the call to the generic function stream-file-descriptor at the end
> of stream-fd as a last resort, and preceded by a #+clos-streams This way
> serve-event still relies on a function (stream-fd) that may or may not have
> this clos-related extension.

I'd think that getting at a stream's underlaying FD is something that
can be generally useful for people besides serve-event, e.g. for
interfacing to C libraries, isn't it?

  -T.