[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Improve changelog handling

[Xavier]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 12:28:25PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2007 12:20 PM, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net> wrote:
> > One small suggestion, has anyone worked out how to read a file directly
> > from an archive using libarchive rather than extracting to a temp file
> > then reading the temp file? It would be useful here and where we read
> > .PKGINFO
> 
> Yeah but we'd have to return an fd, which is fine, but adds some extra
> complexity we may not want.
> 

I was thinking exactly the same as Andrew, why not just using 
  ssize_t archive_read_data(struct archive *, void *buff, size_t len);

I don't understand what you are saying however, about returning a fd.