Design Questions for MingW libjava 3.4 Refactoring

Fri Jun 27 15:14:00 GMT 2003

Hi Michael,
>Sorry for the delay. The answer is that this stuff has to be totally 
>rewritten. The plan is to put a method for selecting into 
>java.io.FileDescriptor that does all the magic. Then all native files 
>will be gone in gnu.java.nio for 3.4 (perhaps we have to use some to 
>access package-private methods in other packages .... but we dont 
>need platform specific native code.

Thanks for your answer. So, if the goal is to eliminate all platform-specific
code from java.nio, is the plan to also put things like native memory mapped
I/O methods in FileDescriptor?
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