Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce!cechew From: cechew@bruce.OZ (Earl Chew) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: C-News on Minix? Message-ID: <1547@bruce.OZ> Date: 25 Sep 89 02:26:12 GMT References: <3349@ast.cs.vu.nl> Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia Lines: 20 From article <3349@ast.cs.vu.nl>, by ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum): > In article <15809@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) writes: >>2) fopen(file, "[rwa]+") gets used, and the old stdio can't handle it. >>Earl Chew's stdio package should take care of this. > Try to be careful. Although I will almost certainly replace stdio for 2.0, > it is not yet clear which I will use. There are several candidates. It is not unreasonable to expect that if the use of the stdio does not rely on `features' of a particular implementation, then it should work regardless of which stdio is eventually adopted. Note, that even with my stdio, a and a+ will not work properly when several processes attempt to append simultaneously. There are some small problems with the current version of my stdio. I have changed it now to try to make it Posix/ANSI conformant. I haven't had much feedback from the news group on the package. I presume those of you (yes, both of you :-) who are using it haven't hit the bugs yet :-). Earl