working SML/NJ version of MLton.Socket

[Henry Cejtin]

I'm pretty sure I remember some mail between you and I thought Reppy about if
there was a way to make TextIO.instream or TextIO.outstream tied  to  a  file
descriptor one already has (say at process start up).  I searched through all
my saved mail and could not find it.  Without it I don't see a  sane  way  to
duplicate the functionality of MLton.Socket.  (The only way I can think of is
to  look  in  /proc/self/fd,  then  open  /dev/null,  then  look   again   in
/proc/self/fd,  then dup the file descriptor of the socket connection over to
that of the /dev/null you just opened.)