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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Can 'graphics' be a file descriptor?
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:33:34 -0800
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wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2025-01-01 at 01:29 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>> A file *descriptor* is a small integer referring to some file-like
>> entity, used with open/close/read/write.  There's no such thing in
>> standard C; it's a POSIX concept.
[...]
> I would like to have opinions about the idea "graphics being a file
> descriptor".  The implement is irrevent for the discussion. Some
> imagination is required.

Why do you insist on referring to "file descriptors"?  That's a specific
term with a specific meaning: a small integer value used in POSIX I/O
(not in standard C).

If you mean FILE* pointers, the discussion might have some relevance to
C.  If you really mean POSIX file descriptors, comp.unix.programmer
might be a better place.

Sure, you could have a graphics system where a program interacts with
the display by reading and writing to FILE* pointers.  You'd have to
encode the operations and returned data as streams of bytes.  I'm not
convinced there would be much advantage.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */