I'm looking for a way to pass in an open file GLOB to an XS routine. I tried googling on this and have reread the perlxs and perlguts pages several times, but I'm still unclear on the concept.

I know that GLOBs are stored as a "stash" which has a special GV "hash" value, but I don't know how I'm supposed to turn that information into a "real" Unix-ish file descriptor.

Basically, I want to put a snippet like this in my Module.pm:

sub open_with_fd {

  my $self = shift;
  my $fh = shift;

  my $big_buffer = do_funky_xs_thang($fh);

  return $big_buffer;

}

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And I want do_funky_xs_thang to be an XSUB that can take an open filehandle and do stuff to it. (The return value will be a big buffer as a scalar value.)

Any help would be appreciated. Even a code snippet somewhere would be a good starting point.

Thanks.

In reply to How to pass filehandles from perl to XS? by mrallen1

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