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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:03:36AM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:55:34PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote: > > So, *why* do you want to serialize it? To write it to a file or down a > > pipe to some other process, I'd say. > > Or a remote process through a socket. Or stuffing into a database/DBM file. +1. Using file descriptors (under Unix) and Handles (under Windows) hides the distinction between files, pipes, sockets, etc. I suppose one can always use fdopen(3C), for example, to convert the descriptors created by pipe(2) into FILE*s, but... M.
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