Building upon the low-level API introduced in an earlier post, we will take a look at the platform-independent high-level API today, which provides support for the things that are to be expected from a game engine file system.
Typically, a file system in a game engine comes with all the bells and whistles like multiple file devices, support for zipped files, encryption, device aliases, asynchronous I/O, and more. But buried underneath every file system lives a low-level implementation (directly using OS/SDK functions), which in turn is used in the high-level file system.
This low-level implementation should be the only platform-specific file implementation in the whole file system, and is the topic of today’s post.
