[Mono-list] PInvoke Conventions

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Jul-2001, Rhys Weatherley <rweather@zip.com.au> wrote:
> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> > afraid that adding even more attributes is not going to help out.
> 
> You may be right.  "stat" is certainly a problem.

I think it is unlikely that you'll be able to do it *all* using only
managed code.  I think it would be easier to just bite the bullet and
accept that there will be some unmanaged code.  This code can be written
in C (or perhap C++), and will get compiled to a platform-specific native
code library.

Once you accept that, then "stat" is no real problem, you just have
to write some glue code in C that wraps up stat() and presents an
interface that you can access using a platform-independent PInvoke.

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