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- From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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- In article <378@longway.TIC.COM> barry@PRC.Unisys.COM (Barry Traylor) writes:
- >Within my development group there has been some debate about the file handle
- >issue. I believed the onus was on the implementation, but was convinced by
- >associates, more imbued with the Unix tradition than myself, that that
- >was not the case, that the onus was on the application.
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- Your associates are correct (as I interpret IEE Std 1003.1-1988).
- The stuff about file handles is intended to allow the implementation
- to NOT have to synchronize file descriptors with stdio streams and
- vice-versa. It is up to the application to take steps to assure
- such synchronization when switching back and forth between multiple
- handles on the same underlying open file description.
-
- The intention is NOT to force extensive use of semaphores in the
- library, quite the opposite.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 10
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