On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <phajdan...@chromium.org>wrote:
> I'd like to add an equivalent of fdopen to the sqlite's VFS ( > http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/vfs.html). The signature would similar to > this: > > int (*xFdOpen)(sqlite3_vfs*, int fd, sqlite3_file*, int flags, int > *pOutFlags); > What does xFdOpen() do in your proposal? Who calls xFdOpen()? What does xFdOpen() return? What processing does xFdOpen() perform? > > This would be needed to cleanly implement fd-passing in Chromium, from > the browser to the sandboxed renderer process. > > I was writing about this earlier, see below (all link to the same thread): > > http://old.nabble.com/upstreaming-Chromium-patches-for-file-handle-passing-support-td29547456.html > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general/59066 > > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/private/sqlite-users/2010-August/023922.html > > One of the problems with just copy-pasting the os_unix.c code to our WebKit > port was that the changes to os_unix.c made between 3.6.x and 3.7.x were > not > so trivial to apply (parts of the code were removed to reduce the amount of > code from ~5000 LOC to ~1000 LOC, and it was re-formatted to match WebKit > style). The change has been reverted anyway for unrelated reasons, but I > started thinking about trying to solve it in sqlite. > > If we had an fdopen-like call in sqlite's VFS (and I'm willing to implement > it), the functionality needed for Chromium could be implemented very > cleanly. What do you think about that? > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
