Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: use of _s[io]buf in stdio library Message-ID: <5873@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 17:28:50 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5873 Posted: Tue Aug 13 17:28:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 17:28:50 EDT References: <776@kuling.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 > I have thought about using them in my own programs, maybe that's > even what they are for!? Don't!! They are a detail of the implementation of stdio, and are *not* guaranteed to be present in all implementations. The intent was to make sure that buffers for stdin and stdout were always available if they were needed, whence the names. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry