[e-lang] Design issue: Virtualized filesystem

[Kevin Reid]

On Feb 10, 2011, at 18:15, Ben Laurie wrote:

> This sounds like a FIle object doesn't map onto a UNIX file descriptor
> (which can't be asked for its filename and may not even have one).


Correct. File descriptors are “open files”; these are “files in the  
filesystem” and, in fact, are really just thin wrappers around  
pathnames (java.io.File).

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