I would hesitate to embrace a "universal" I/O abstraction that is architected around a monolithic kernel. Linux and Windows are not the only game in town. This

I would hesitate to embrace a "universal" I/O abstraction that is architected around a monolithic kernel. Linux and Windows are not the only game in town. This design make make for a nice third-party library for some applications, but it has no place being cemented into the standard library.