[Zlib-devel] Some questions about gz* functions

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:37:57PM +0400, niXman wrote:

> I want to offer a patch of implementation of abstract IO-API for gz*
> functions. For this purpose I need to change gz* functions so that
> they used file-handlers instead of file-descriptors.
> Tell to me please why gz* functions use file-descriptors but not
> file-handlers? And whether will be accepted my patch which modifies
> zlib so that it was used file-handler instead of file-descriptor?

I'm a different Mark, but what is a "file handler"?  If you mean a file
handle that's a POSIX specific concept which isn't available on many
OSs.