Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:21:28 GMT From: Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change to stdio.h to export `cookie?' Message-ID: <199601171921.TAA17835@Grizzly.COM> In-Reply-To: <14934.821890828@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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>about the inside of the FILE structure. I don't know if anyone's ever >ported MH to a new stdio architecture, but programs which make >assumptions about the internals of stdio are EVIL and should be >banned. In the case of the cookie, it's worse since there's no other >way to fiddle with it and fiddle with it you have to if you want to >actually use it as the designers intended. To prevent myself (and code I helped to put in Tcl/Tk) from being banned, how about a macro to determine if there is any data to be read pending in the buffer? Its essential if you want to do select on a buffered file. Mark
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