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File descriptors as integers considered harmful

Continuing the previous foray into file descriptors, and trying to remove Obj.magic both from ocaml-uring’s code itself, and from the recommended way for using it.

01 Oct 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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File descriptors are not integers

There was a flurry of activity on ocaml-multicore/ocaml-uring this month leading to a release (ocaml/opam-repository#28604). ocaml-uring provides bindings to the Linux’s io_uring, which allows batching various syscalls to the kernel for it to execute out-of-order, and in parallel. Its principal use at the moment is for the high-performance Linux backend of Eio.

30 Sep 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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