Hi, > Now, these are not quite posix operation, but they are not totally > unlike it either. I'm not sure how this could be harder to map to ftp or > http than posix?
It will not be harder, but we will probably have the same problems we had with the old gnome-vfs modules to implement the "backends" for HTTP and FTP. I mean you cannot partially read a file or partially write it using HTTP (see the "close" problem with HTTP module you described in your mail). So, the question is: do we really need a low-level API to read/write files? Do you see real use cases where applications using VFS want to partially read/write files (also considering that the real behavior will be dependent on the backend implementation)? I like the Havoc's idea about a using DAV as a model for a VFS API. Ciao, Paolo _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list