[Openmcl-devel] make-fd-stream

[Julian Squires]

Hi.

This might be a stupid question, as I don't know much about the
internals of OpenMCL.  I was wondering whether it's possible to get a
"normal" stream (one for which STREAMP returns T) from
CCL::MAKE-FD-STREAM, and also whether that function will ever be
exported from CCL.

I'm currently maintaining a package called OSICAT that makes use of
fd-streams, where available, to provide an interface to tmpfile(3).  The
alternative, on implementations without fd-streams, is a lot less
elegant and probably less secure.  So, I was hoping to get OpenMCL to
support fd-streams at a level similar to CMUCL.

OpenMCL is a great compiler, BTW.  It's my regular environment for CL
work under Linux/PPC.

Cheers.

-- 
Julian Squires