[IronPython] IronPython and file descriptors

[Tom Wright]

Not so: Though admittedly you have to do quite a bit of work to get the 
file descriptor into .NET.
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bdts1c9x(VS.71).aspx

To clarify - the C library was written to work with Python (not 
IronPython) and is not my code.

Thanks,
Tom

Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
>
> There's no such thing as a file descriptor number in .NET -- or, for 
> that matter, in Windows itself! :)  (The latter is something of a 
> semantic point, of course, as a HANDLE serves something of the same 
> role in Win32 as a file descriptor number does in Unix.)
>
> If you have a FileStream, I think you can turn it into a Windows 
> HANDLE by saying
> IntPtr handle = stream.SafeFileHandle.DangerousGetHandle();
> The C library should have a way to convert a HANDLE into a "file 
> descriptor", though I wasn't able to identify the function name with a 
> quick google.
> I don't see a way to get handles for stdin, stdout or stderr, though, 
> except that these ought to be easy to translate by hand.
>  
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Tom Wright 
> <tom.wright at resolversystems.com 
> <mailto:tom.wright at resolversystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     At the moment file.fileno() returns an arbitrary identifier of a
>     python file rather than a true file descriptor. This is
>     semi-blocking the Ironclad port of PIL.
>
>     Code in PIL gets an integer using fileno() and passes it directly
>     to C code where a call to write() is made. To fix this  one would
>     have to patch PIL, IronPython's file objects or the write function
>     provided to C code - none of these feel like a good course of action.
>
>     When ctypes is ported to IronPython this may create similar
>     problems. Ideally fileno() would return a real file descriptor.
>     Would this be possible?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Tom
>     Resolver Systems
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