Re: work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

2013-02-07 Thread Eric Wong
Eric Blake wrote: > open_memstream still sounds like a nice project for anyone interested in > implementing, though. Thanks for the reply, I've also been able to cope without it. Hopefully somebody has spare cycles pick this up (or more platforms can just support it natively).

Re: work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

2013-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/07/2013 02:54 AM, Eric Wong wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> The libvirt project would be very interested in using open_memstream, >> since it is now part of POSIX 2008. > > Hi, I realize this thread for open_memstream support in gnulib is now > several years old. Just wondering why it was ne

Re: work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

2013-02-07 Thread Eric Wong
Eric Blake wrote: > The libvirt project would be very interested in using open_memstream, > since it is now part of POSIX 2008. Hi, I realize this thread for open_memstream support in gnulib is now several years old. Just wondering why it was never completed/merged into gnulib... I assume it's

Re: work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

2010-04-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 04/24/2010 12:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: For platforms without stdio hooking, the simplest thing we could think of is to create a temporary file under the hood, then provide gnulib overrides of fflush and fclose (the only two points at which POSIX requires that the original arguments to open_mem

Re: work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

2010-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > The libvirt project would be very interested in using open_memstream, And many other people, I'm sure, once they learn that it exists and can be used portably. > since it is now part of POSIX 2008. We even tossed around an idea > on IRC on how to implement it for mingw, detai

work in progress: [PATCH 0/2+] open_memstream

2010-04-23 Thread Eric Blake
The libvirt project would be very interested in using open_memstream, since it is now part of POSIX 2008. We even tossed around an idea on IRC on how to implement it for mingw, details below. For now, I've got a test working on Linux and cygwin 1.7 as the golden reference (two independent impleme