Re: Multifile patch

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Sep 4, 2012, at 3:11 AM, David Laight wrote:

> On windows you can't pass 'FILE *' into shared libraries,
> they are likely to have their own copies of the stdio
> libraries - with different FILE structures.
> (eg if one part is compiled with debug enabled).

In this patch, the library into which VFile is being passed is called "the C library", i.e., with the patch, we're not 
passing it to libpcap/WinPcap, we're passing it to fgets(); if you couldn't pass a FILE * to, say, fgets(), the stdio 
libraries would be completely useless.

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