[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4 released!

[John Bowler]

From: zlib-devel-bounces at madler.net [mailto:zlib-devel-bounces at madler.net] On Behalf Of Mark Adler
>The reason gzclose() closes the gzdopen() file descriptor is because that's
>what fdopen() / fclose() does.

Yes, so it is a good consistency to maintain that behavior for gzdopen().

>However I'm not clear on how you can use the file descriptor in read() and
>write(), but run into problems if you use close() on it.

If the GZ data written into the file descriptor is only part of a larger object.  I.e. if I want to squirt out some GZ data into the middle of a larger stream.

It's probably moot because in practice I'd almost certainly use the z_stream directly and ignore the GZ code - deflate() does everything I need.

John Bowler <jbowler at acm.org>