Filesystem.OpenFile returns vfs.File, not *vfs.File

[frontierpsycho]

I was wondering why OpenFile doesn't return a pointer to a File, like its standard library counterpart. I would say that mirroring the standard library as closely as possible makes it a lot less painful to migrate to using vfs as a wrapper.

[blang]

That's because vfs.File is an interface and os.File is a struct.
For example in vfs.OsFS underneath this interface a *os.File is returned.

[frontierpsycho]

Ah, thanks. Fair enough. It seems my grasp of the relationship between pointers and interfaces needs some work.