How to use I/O from extension modules ?

Hello,

I am trying to write an extension module with native C code, and I have a
couple of questions:

   - My class has an entry with an open device handle. How can my C code
get the file description (fd) for this handle please ? I can see sv_2io()
in perlapi, but there is no documentation about what do to next with the
resulting IO * value. I ended up calling the perl fileno() from my C code,
and I would like to know if there is a better / straigthforward way ?

   - To my surprise I noticed system calls for read() / ioctl() /.. are
overriden by <perl.h> with a macro. Should I worry about this ? Can I find
some more information ? I would like to use these calls in my extension and
I would like to know if I should try to avoid the re-definition, maybe with
a separate .c file that still exports the original function pointers.

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Thank you,
Timothy Madden

• How to use I/O from extension modules ? by Timothy Madden
• Re: How to use I/O from extension modules ? by Leon Timmermans