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- From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Beware of fileno()
- Keywords: sunos, ultrix, stdio, fileno, lossage, irix
- Message-ID: <1217@ki.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 00:21:34 GMT
- References: <14njaeINNvk@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Jul24.062320.2170@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul24.141048.10911@aosg.gsf.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Jul24.141048.10911@aosg.gsf.dec.com> reeves@decvax.dec.com writes:
- ||> >Sean Eric Fagan |> Andreas Stolcke
- ||> >... fileno() returns a char field in the FILE structure...one has to use
- ||> > (unsigned char)fileno(stream)
- ||> Current BSD sources have the _file element as a short.
- |
- |The same change went into ULTRIX over a year ago; I believe it's been released
- |for nearly a year (it was definitely in V4.2, which isn't even the current
- |release any more).
- |--
- |Jon Reeves Digital Equipment Corporation, Alpha Open Systems Group
- | 5 Wentworth Drive, MS GSF1-1K13, Hudson NH 03051-4929 USA
- |+1 603 884 5859 reeves@decvax.dec.com FAX: +1 603 884 1685
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- SGI Irix 4.0.1 still has it as "char _file;". I wonder if they've
- fixed it yet? Luckily, the default behaviour for the SGI C compiler
- is to treat all chars as unsigned.
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