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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
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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