Re: GVfs status report

[John Ehresman <jpe wingware com>]

Yevgen Muntyan wrote:
> > > My impression is that ideally on Windows you use the native
> > > windows-looking file API, and that the file-descriptor-using API is
> > > some kind of weird emulation hack. But I could not comment
> > > intelligently on the details.
> > >     
> > I assume so. Its part of the libc runtime on windows. However, the
> > question is, apart from one layer less, what are the other advantages?
> >   
> Pygtk is currently unable to use GIOChannel because both Glib and
> Python use file descriptor API, but different C runtime libraries. 

The issue is that file descriptors shouldn't be passed from a dll / exe 
using one C runtime to another using a different C runtime -- or if they 
are, they must be used only with functions from the appropriate C 
runtime.  Use of file descriptors within a single dll is generally not a 
problem.

The native win32 calls (CreateFile and others) probably has advantages, 
but I can't say whether a separate implementation would be desirable.

Cheers,

John