Re: Extending the io library

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2. Write a wrapper class which mimics io objects, and use that. That's
> a real pain, as I'm basically reimplementing the io library for a
> couple of minor convenience features.

I can testify to the pain involved here. For my SciTE extensions, I
needed Lua file objects which were connected to the i/o handles of a
captured process. I tried to avoid rewriting by using fdopen, etc, to
give me FILE * handles, but I had weird problems, and ended up copying
a good portion of liolib.c...

steve d.