cab_G_00-pre1 (RFC)

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Saturday 16 August 2003 03:14 am, Eric Pouech wrote:
> Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> > "Eric Pouech" <pouech-eric at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >>>Why don't you use _lclose, _lcreat, _llseek, _lopen, _lread, _lwrite
> >>>exported from kernel32?
> >>
> >>except for _lopen which differs a bit from CreateFile, but why not using
> >>ReadFile, WriteFile, CloseHandle...
> >
> > Because they look too hard for Gregory... Did you read the whole thread?
>
> yes I did... but I don't so many differences between read and
> ReadFile... which is not as easy for open vs. CreateFile as I wrote

Looking at msvcrt's code, it starts to look like a bit much.  Take a peek at 
dlls/msvcrt/file.c, "_open" and "MSVCRT__sopen" functions to get an idea of 
what I was hoping to avoid.  Looking at dlls/kernel/file.c, somehow things 
are much simpler (!?).  I will do some experimentation with "_lopen" and co. 
(and read the api doc on MSDN) but presumably -- hopefully, judging by the 
names -- the "_l" API's will be close enough to "_open" & co. to avoid some 
cut-and-paste development.  If not... there's more than one way to skin a 
cat.

-- 
gmt

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