[Zlib-devel] Some questions about gz* functions

[niXman]

2012/2/9 Mark Adler <madler at madler.net>:
> On Feb 8, 2012, at 9:37 AM, niXman wrote:
>> 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?
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>
> niXman,
>
> It is for efficiency, in order to avoid an unneeded level of buffers and memcpy's.  I would not be willing to change it to FILE *'s.
>
> I'm not sure what advantages an "abstract IO-API" would confer.  However I will note that the deflate and inflate functions provide full gzip support, so a zlib user can use those to interface to any sort of I/O they would like, such as through SSH.
The problem is not that I need to use libssh2 together with zlib.
There is a set of types of data sources which would be possible to use
together with zlib with minimum efforts.

I have understood your views.

Regards.
niXman.

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> Mark
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