Mailing List Archive: sfio (was Re: After doing a select check question.)

On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, William Setzer wrote:

> : On a practical note, we've been putting off doing this until we switch
> : to sfio, which when compared to stdio has Known Characteristics. But
> : nobody's sent in a patch for that yet either...
>
> So what is currently the status with the sfio stuff? I remember that
> "we" (those that were interested in doing an sfio port) decided to
> hold off for some reason that I don't remember, and someone else was
> working on an sfio module to test things in a less, er, permanent
> fashion. :-) Anyone want to refresh everyone else's memory? Is it
> time to again consider an sfio-based perl?

Efficiency and/or portabilty was the issue. I'm sure. Perhaps if someone
could dig up the most recent README for sfio, some people might get nudged
into action.

> William

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