Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:01:19 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modifying FILE to add lock Message-ID: <20001129140119.P8051@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3A257ABD.5238ED4E@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:53:01PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0011291152160.58003-100000@alive.znep.com> <3A257ABD.5238ED4E@cup.hp.com>
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* Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> [001129 13:53] wrote: > Marc Slemko wrote: > > > > If you add a field at the end, then anything that allocates memory > > for a FILE will break, although it is bogus to do that anyway. > > Having done the signal changes, I immediately have to think about the > Modula port... I've never ever looked at the contents of struct FILE except to research how stdio works. Why do we need to care about the contents of struct FILE (or DIR)? We have funopen do deal with creating our own special streams, what's the point of digging into struct FILE? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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