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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 23:18:01 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 18:13:37 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Windows did many things wrong, but accessing file descriptors by numbers
> is beyond even Windows. In Windows a file is an OS object. You access it
> getting an opaque handle to. Note that a handle can be marshaled from
> one process to another. Try that with process-local numbers!

Actually, that is a standard feature of “Unix” sockets, as available on 
Linux, the BSDs, and all the other *nixes: being able to pass file 
descriptors for open files from one process to another.