The purpose of this crate is to make it a bit more ergonomic for portable
applications that need to work with the platform level RawFd and
RawHandle types.
Rather than conditionally using RawFd and RawHandle, the FileDescriptor
type can be used to manage ownership, duplicate, read and write.
The Pipe type makes it more convenient to create a pipe and manage
the lifetime of both the read and write ends of that pipe.
| FileDescriptor | FileDescriptor is a thin wrapper on top of the OwnedHandle type that
exposes the ability to Read and Write to the platform RawFileDescriptor.
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| OwnedHandle | OwnedHandle allows managing the lifetime of the platform RawFileDescriptor
type. It is exposed in the interface of this crate primarily for convenience
on Windows where the system handle type is used for a variety of objects
that don't support reading and writing.
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| Pipe | Represents the readable and writable ends of a pair of descriptors
connected via a kernel pipe.
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| AsRawFileDescriptor | AsRawFileDescriptor is a platform independent trait for returning
a non-owning reference to the underlying platform file descriptor
type.
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| FromRawFileDescriptor | FromRawFileDescriptor is a platform independent trait for creating
an instance from the underlying platform file descriptor type.
Because the platform file descriptor type has no inherent ownership
management, the from_raw_file_descrptor function is marked as unsafe
to indicate that care must be taken by the caller to ensure that it
is used appropriately.
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| IntoRawFileDescriptor | IntoRawFileDescriptor is a platform independent trait for converting
an instance into the underlying platform file descriptor type.
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| RawFileDescriptor | RawFileDescriptor is a platform independent type alias for the
underlying platform file descriptor type. It is primarily useful
for avoiding using cfg blocks in platform independent code.
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