Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: cairo library wrapper

[Paolo Bonzini]

Stephen Compall wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 20:13 -0800, Brad Watson wrote:
> > how to implement a work around for it's requirement for accessing files via
> > a FILE * pointer rather than a file descriptor which is what gst provides.  
> > Ideas anyone ?
>
> See (glibc)Custom Streams::, or
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Custom-Streams.html

You could use an fdopen but you have to be careful because fclosing the 
FILE * pointer will close the original buffer, and not closing it will 
leak the memory for the buffers.  I'm curious whether a setvbuf to 
disable buffering, plus freeing the FILE * is decently portable (at 
least in practice).

Paolo