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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Change to stdio.h to export `cookie?' 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:17:05 +1100."
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:40:55 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Since the cookie points to an object that is decided by the caller
> of funopen(), it is impossible to know what it points to.

True, but when I have a fairly constrained set of circumstances where
I know that the only FILE* pointers I'm being passed are ones created
by funopen(), it's not a problem - I simply know what the cookie is
going to be.

> It could only work for cookies created by the stdio implementation.
> Ick.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

					Jordan