Re: GVfs status report

["Dominic Lachowicz" <domlachowicz gmail com>]

Hi Alex,

On 9/14/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:12 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's a lot of code to absorb here, a minor comment, I might expect
> > GUnixFileInputStream/GWindowsFileInputStream rather than
> > GLocalFileInputStream.
>
> Well, the same class is used on both unix and windows. Its the
> implementation of "native files", and I don't see any need to split it
> out really. What differences would there be between the two?

Well, we'd probably want at least a Win32 implementation in terms of
the native Windows file API. Windows limits the number of FILE*s or
fd_ts to 2048 per process. The only way to get around this limitation
is to use the native API.

Cheers,
Dom