From 2f1878a6f7375db47251c561130030a2b4e2544e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 21:21:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] portable c-code for reading pingback/announcement message

---
 gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc | 18 ++++++++----------
 gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc  |  9 +--------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc b/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
index ce95aec7e6..71b1639d69 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/ardour_ui.cc
@@ -807,20 +807,18 @@ ARDOUR_UI::check_announcements ()
 #endif
 	_annc_filename.append (VERSIONSTRING);
 
+	_announce_string = "";
+
 	std::string path = Glib::build_filename (user_config_directory(), _annc_filename);
 	FILE* fin = g_fopen (path.c_str(), "rb");
-
 	if (fin) {
-		std::ifstream announce_file (fin);
-
-		if ( announce_file.fail() )
-			_announce_string = "";
-		else {
-			std::stringstream oss;
-			oss << announce_file.rdbuf();
-			_announce_string = oss.str();
+		while (!feof (fin)) {
+			char tmp[1024];
+			if (fread (tmp, sizeof(char), 1024, fin) <= 0) {
+				break;
+			}
+			_announce_string += fin
 		}
-
 		fclose (fin);
 	}
 
diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc b/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
index 10c798e104..9df81650fa 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/pingback.cc
@@ -226,14 +226,7 @@ _pingback (void *arg)
 			FILE* fout = g_fopen (cm->announce_path.c_str(), "wb");
 
 			if (fout) {
-				{
-					std::ofstream annc_file (fout);
-
-					if (annc_file) {
-						annc_file << return_str;
-					}
-				}
-
+				fwrite (return_str.c_str(), sizeof(char), return_str.length (), fout);
 				fclose (fout);
 			}
 		}