On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:47 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > On 9/14/07, Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > > > > 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? _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
