Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!chris From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: use of _s[io]buf in stdio library Message-ID: <1244@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 23:20:53 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1244 Posted: Wed Aug 14 23:20:53 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:47:13 EDT References: <776@kuling.UUCP> <5873@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 13 >> I have thought about using them in my own programs... >Don't!! They are a detail of the implementation of stdio, and are *not* >guaranteed to be present in all implementations. In fact, they are *gone* in Sun Unix (1.3? something like that). Quite a surprise, actually. They're also no longer used in 4.3BSD (I think) but are still in the C library (so those of you who have [mis]used them won't notice). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland