Design Questions for MingW libjava 3.4 Refactoring

Fri Jun 27 15:36:00 GMT 2003

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Am Freitag, 27. Juni 2003 17:14 schrieb Mohan Embar:
> 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?

Yes. I have code for this here but not yet submitted to java-patches.
Michael
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