Re: [Fwd: Re: A console: method for accessing standard streams]

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 18 Nov 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:26, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > I would much prefer a way to 
> > e.g. get a GnomeVFSHandle for an open filedescriptor (unnamed handle, no 
> > "fd:2" uri) instead of having magic names like this. 
> 
> 	Indeed - that'd be preferable to me too; but clearly having that
> functionality is better than not having it at all ;-)

Not always, since we have to keep supporting a user visible feature.

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