From: Joan Moreau

I am trying to avoid closing/ reopening a file pointer to the exact same file between each call to the plugin

Can't you do an end-run around all this by having a persistent standalone process that holds all your persistent data, and the plugin collects session data and passes it to the persistent process via sockets? You'll have to have some initial handshake protocol to establish session context, but this seems the easiest way to accomplish what you want.

Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com