Re: work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

[Eric Blake]

On 02/07/2013 02:54 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The libvirt project would be very interested in using open_memstream,
>> since it is now part of POSIX 2008.
> 
> Hi, I realize this thread for open_memstream support in gnulib is now
> several years old.  Just wondering why it was never completed/merged
> into gnulib...

Mainly because it turned out to be very difficult to hook enough of
stdio in a reasonable manner in order to ensure that things work, and
libvirt in the meantime has managed to cope without open_memstream.
It's one of those projects that therefore sunk lower on my to-do list,
with it no longer being one of my itches.

> 
> I assume it's too much time/effort to get working on some platforms; and
> perhaps not worth it.  It'd be nice to have, but I can live without it,
> too: tmpfile()+rewind()+fread() seems good enough for the few *BSD users
> I support.

open_memstream still sounds like a nice project for anyone interested in
implementing, though.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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