[plt-scheme] loading extension in a module

Daniel> To write your C extension as a module, you create a module
Daniel> namespace with scheme_primitive_module, then add your primitives
Daniel> to it, and finally close the namespace with
Daniel> scheme_finish_primitive_module:

But this is not what I want to do.  It could be a possible workaround,
but before I go into workarounds I want to know if my original intent is
doable and how.

Clearly, as the transcript in my post shows, when load-extension is
called at the toplevel, it directly imports the new primitives into the
toplevel namespace.  I just want to do the same thing _in a regular
Scheme module_, i.e. make the C primitives be part of the module
namespace.  Maybe you didn't follow the link to the files, so I enclose
relevant parts of them below (I can't post them verbatim because they
have long lines).

BTW, I believe you meant to name the parameter to your example
scheme_initialize enclosing_ns.

Daniel> Scheme_Object* scheme_initialize(Scheme_Env* ns)
Daniel> {
Daniel> Scheme_Env* ns = scheme_primitive_module(scheme_module_name(),
Daniel> enclosing_ns);
Daniel> scheme_add_global("c-lstat", my_c_lstat_primitive, ns);
Daniel> ...
Daniel> scheme_finish_primitive_module(ns);
Daniel> return scheme_void;
Daniel> }

Here are the excerpts:

stat.ss:

(module stat mzscheme

  ;; ...

  (load-relative-extension "plt_stat.so")

  ;; ... definition of repack-c-stat somewhere here

  (define (lstat filename) (repack-c-stat c-lstat "lstat" filename))
  (define (stat  filename) (repack-c-stat c-stat  "stat"  filename))

  (provide
     stat lstat

  ;; ...


plt_stat.c:

struct plt_prim_info
{
  Scheme_Prim* prim;
  const char* name;
  int mina;
  int maxa;
};
typedef struct plt_prim_info plt_prim_info_t;

static const plt_prim_info_t plt_stat_prims [] =
  {
    { plt_stat  , "c-stat", 1, 1 },
    { plt_lstat , "c-lstat", 1, 1 },
    { NULL, NULL, 0, 0 }
  };

/* ... */

Scheme_Object*
scheme_initialize (Scheme_Env* namespace)
{
  for (const plt_prim_info_t* pprim = plt_stat_prims; pprim->name != NULL;
pprim++)
    {
      Scheme_Object* pob =
        scheme_make_prim_w_arity (pprim->prim, pprim->name, pprim->mina,
pprim->maxa);
      scheme_add_global (pprim->name, pob, namespace);
    }
        /* ... */
  return scheme_void;
}

Scheme_Object*
scheme_reload (Scheme_Env* namespace)
{
  (void) namespace;             /* unused */
  return scheme_void;
}

Scheme_Object*
scheme_module_name (void)
{
  return scheme_false;
}


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