[sleuthkit-developers] Re: IO Subsystem patch for fstools

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

Excellent.

> 4) All filesystem code uses the io object to actually do the reading. 
> e.g.:
> 	ext2fs->fs_info.io->read_random(ext2fs->fs_info.io, (FS_INFO *) 
> ext2fs,(char
> *) gd, sizeof(ext2fs_gd),offs, "group descriptor");
>
> 	the io object has a number of methods. For example:
> 	io->constructor

What is the constructor used for?

I quickly looked the changes over.  Is there a need to pass FS_INFO to 
the read functions?  I didn't see you using them and it would be nice 
if we could avoid doing that (so that we don't have to restrict 
ourselves to file system code).

thanks,
brian