[Expat-discuss] file pointers or descriptors?

[Carlos Pereira]

Hi,

I am reading both local and remote files,
using HTTP and FTP (anonymous) protocols,
and then sending the relevant contents to Expat.

For the sake of elegance and maintenance, I want
to handle all the three cases using the same
routine to read the file contents.

At the moment I am using file descriptors and is
working fine, but I think it would be better to
use file pointers instead, which is ansi standard,

Is this a good ideia, to convert the internet socket 
file descriptors to file pointers with fdopen and 
then just use the normal stdio.h functions? is there
something that I should be worried about?

According to K&R, BSD and System V Unixes even
use different headers (<unistd.h> and sys/file.h) 
to declare the open system call...

Thanks for the comments!

Carlos