Comment by rhelz
1 year ago
// This is the interface description //
Yeah, but that is the abstraction. The associated .c files are not the abstraction, because they could be implemented any number of different ways, and it would still be the same abstraction.
It's incredible that even the header file is around 200 LOC. For state-of-the-art, very performant database, I would have thought that all manner of Os-specific IO api's would have to be used.
I don't find it that remarkable. They are function signatures for open, close, read, write, a few locking operations... The signatures for the same operations on both Win32 and POSIX look extremely similar to this. These are fairly "obvious", most multiplatform code written in C has something pretty close to this.