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