Hi Tim,


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:38 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> At least part the problem is that the fopen/fread etc API is dangerous
> unless well implemented at the lowest level. Intermixed uses of fpos and
> fread can easily mangle your data unless the lower level code really
> carefully tracks things. Our API providing fpos at the image level is
> decidedly dangerous, adding a second layer of possible problems.
>

forgive me, but this strikes me as FUD.  We're talking about adding a
read-only copy, not mixing many writable files.  I can't see that the API
presents any hazard to the proposed usage.


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> /tim
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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