> WG21 is thinking about standardising a native_handle_type

LEWGi looked at this in Cologne and said that they don’t want it, so I’m not sure it’s appropriate to bug WG14 at this time: http://wiki.edg.com/bin/view/Wg21cologne2019/P1759

> That means that the implementation does whatever is necessary to make it work, for some unspecified meaning of "work".

Note also that the *existence* of such members is implementation defined, so an implementation can define that they don’t exist.

Billy3

From: Liaison <liaison-bounces@lists.isocpp.org> on behalf of pete--- via Liaison <liaison@lists.isocpp.org>
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Subject: Re: [wg14/wg21 liaison] Fwd: native_handle_type

On Aug 19, 2019, at 12:08 PM, Niall Douglas via Liaison <liaison@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
>
> There is precedent here. You can ask POSIX what kind of inode a file
> descriptor refers to. Same goes here for native handle type, which
> similarly refers to some implementation-defined-structure-elsewhere.
> Indeed, as you may have noticed in my forwarded message to WG14, one
> could even use mode_t as the union discriminant on POSIX platforms.
>

Let me ask you again a question that you elided when you quoted me:

If the standard adds support for determining the type (for whatever meaning of “type” is involved here), what then? What can you do **portably** that you can’t do **portably** without that information?

-- Pete
Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.

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