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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: use of _s[io]buf in stdio library
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 23:20:53 EDT
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>> 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).
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