[erlang-questions] some language changes

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2007-05-23 22:07, Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) wrote:
> The problem is (1) that epp explicitly calls file:open(),
> and has no function that just accepts a file descriptor,
> and (2) that epp uses the io subsystem, which requires
> file_io_server, which only works on regular files.

what i meant was that epp should accept an IO device (as returned from 
file:open/2), too. this seemed a good idea since it probably used one 
internally.
it is easy (since i have done it :-) to write your own server that 
handles the IO device.

if i understand you correctly then epp does not use the io module 
internally but have opened in raw mode. correct?

then it is a large (but trivial?) undertaking to change epp from 
file:read() to io:fread().


> This has been discussed in an earlier thread, and 
> various workarounds have been presented. Mine was to
> make a ram_file_io_server, which I thought was 
> trivially easy (after some study of the file IO
> system).

that is ok too. i have not done it, but it could be more fun than 
changing epp to use the io module.


bengt
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