[flexi-streams-devel] Re: flexi-streams feature idea

[Edi Weitz]

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Hi!

On Sat, 13 May 2006 13:19:22 +0200, "Attila Lendvai" <attila.lendvai at gmail.com> wrote:

> i know that you probably have tons of ideas yourself, but the
> in-memory streams could support file-position, especially the
> vector-streams.
>
> we are trying to serve a generated document made by cl-typesetting,
> but it wants to seek in the bivalent output stream it demands, so a
> direct network stream is a no-go. but using a vector-output-stream
> would be fine if it supported file-position.
>
> if you don't have time for this i'll look into this eventually
> myself, but for now /tmp is fine for us.

I don't think you can support FILE-POSITION, at least I'm not aware of
a way to do that with Gray streams.  However, one could invent an
accessor like, say, IN-MEMORY-STREAM-POSITION.  But one would need to
define the exact semantics of this operator.  What would you propose?

Cheers,
Edi.