On 24 April 2017 at 06:01, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via cpan-testers-discuss <cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org> wrote: > It occurred to me that I would still need h2ph to invoke the getdents > syscall anyway, unless there is some alternatives I'm not aware. > > Maybe using XS?
That was basically my conclusion: don't bother with h2ph, just write a .pm file and a .XS file, and then invoke all the C Specific API calls from XS. The initial XS might be a little more work, but you still need a compiler on the target system anyway, and XS is much more battle proven and understood by existing tools than h2ph and the hacks you need to work with it. Besides, performing syscall() from perl space is a bit slower than the same call in native C, and you have to probably fuss with pack in Perl. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
