On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:59:20AM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
Except read and write from a block device, although that could be fixed with new APIs.
Um yes indeed. pwrite-device, pread-device.
Also, as I said before, I think the handle-based API is a good alternative for large data-transfer. I don't think your hexedit experience was a good example. For example, I would expect using hread to be less code than using pread for reading the contents of a file into memory in chunks.
A filename can be used as a handle, except it is a handle that doesn't need to be opened or closed, so the code simply has to be shorter. But anyhow if you post the actual code involved then I can try out both APIs. The issue with hexedit was managing the handles, specifically making sure they are closed along all paths. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw