[Zlib-devel] Some questions about gz* functions

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:50:34PM +0200, T?r?k Edwin wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 07:59 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 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.

> Isn't fopen() C89?

Yes, fopen() is standard C.

> Anyway I don't see a point in changing the gz interfaces, one can always use fileno()/fdopen() if they want to interact
> with FILE*.

Indeed.