Re: Command line globber/tokenizer library for C?

On 14/09/2024 02:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:48:38 +0100, Bart wrote:
 

On 13/09/2024 23:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:49:35 +0300, Michael S wrote:
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What exactly your response has to do with producing data structures
with predefined layout?

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Look at those structures: they have a specific predefined layout.

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One link is a man-page with several C structs defined ...

 Correct. Structures that the Python wrapper is able to map exactly.
 And the choice between which particular structure variants to use is
dynamic, dependent on the event type. So the Python wrapper is able to
dynamically generate a suitable type-safe wrapper -- something that a
statically-typed language cannot do.

So, where IS the struct defined in that Python code? Which line number?
If it is the defined is elsewhere, then that Python proves nothing.
For example, where is this struct:
   struct fanotify_event_info_header {
       __u8 info_type;
       __u8 pad;
       __u16 len;
   };
defined in that Python? I have an idea how this might be done using the ctypes module for example, but it's not pretty. However I'm not even seeing that.