Re: [xml-dev] genx - abstract output

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.