Re: [Vala] posix: FILE binding

[Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>]

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 21:17 +0100, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> 2009/11/20, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey vanille-media de>:
> > While trying to add popen(3) to posix.vapi, I stumbled
> > over the current binding of FILE, which looks incorrect
> > to me. All the functions that operate on FILE seem to
> > take a FILE*, so binding it as [SimpleType] defeats this
> > purpose.
> I think it's wrong to define it as a struct in the first place (let
> alone as a simple type) :  it's an opaque struct in C, so it should be
> a compact class (and it is in glib-2.0.vapi)

I agree. After talking to Mickey (in IRC), I've gone ahead and committed
a patch which basically copies GLib.FileStream with a few small changes.
If this breaks anything, please let us know.

-Evan