Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C Message-ID: <1989Aug16.155223.20744@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <207600029@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <941@lakesys.UUCP> <10734@smoke.BRL.MIL> <5692@ficc.uu.net> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 15:52:23 GMT In article <5692@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >> >of standard co-routine arrangement? > >> It cannot be mandated across all implementations. > >Well, the flip response to this is: "Maybe, but then neither can fork().", Which is why fork() is not in ANSI C. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu