[Fwd: Qt4.3 - important regression with QFile::handle() on win32]

[Thiago Macieira]

Richard Moore wrote:
>I don't see why - either f.handle() should work or there's a Qt bug. I
>don't see how this is any different from using a window handle or a
>graphics context.

It's a handle, but what's a handle?

Qt makes no guarantees or explicit definitions what it is or how it's 
found. On Unix, we're reasonably sure it's the file descriptor. But on 
Windows, like Christian is reporting, it could be a file descriptor from 
the POSIX emulation layer or it could be the actual HANDLE object.

Like I said, regardless of whether this is a regression in Qt or not, we 
don't know what a handle is and we shouldn't be making assumptions about 
it being a POSIX-style file descriptor.

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