Re: C string as 'file' object

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great ernie once stated:
> Is there an easy way to make a C string look like a read-only file 
> object (file:lines(), file:read(), file:seek())?  Might not be too much 
> to implement from scratch, but wondering if someone's already seen this.

  If you are using a system with the GNU C library, you can call fmemopen(),
which creates a FILE* object from memory.  You can read a man page here:

	http://linux.die.net/man/3/open_memstream

  -spc