[gdal-dev] vsipreload: enabling VSI Virtual File API for regular I/O

[Howard Butler]

On May 26, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> This file is the source code for a standalone shared library that can be 
> LD_PRELOAD'ed as an overload of libc to enable VSI Virtual FILE API to be used 
> with binaries using regular libc I/O API.

> This can work with all VSI Large File API filesystems : /vsizip/ , /vsitar/, 
> /vsisubfile/ , etc...

Cool!

Next question, if you'll pardon my ignorance, why would we ever want to do this? What does the VSI preload provide?

Howard