Re: file-handles

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> Frankly, the only reason the GUI needs to bother with file_handles, is
> that it's currently the only way to call sfm_open_{reader,writer}.
> I'd be happier to add a function to these modules, which takes a
> filename instead of  a file_handle (and the same for pfm_open).  Then
> I don't need to use file handles at all.
>
> Do you think that would be a better solution?

It sounds reasonable too.  You'll need to replace a lot of calls
to fh_get_filename() by a saved copy of the filename, but that
might actually qualify as a clean-up.  Do make sure to preserve
the pairing of fh_open() and fh_close(), even in error
cases.
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