From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 29 14:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2C737B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FBDA420; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:43:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id OAA24388; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:43:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A258696.EAD7BD7A@cup.hp.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:43:34 -0500 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Marc Slemko , Daniel Eischen , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modifying FILE to add lock References: <3A257ABD.5238ED4E@cup.hp.com> <20001129140119.P8051@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > 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? The fact that you (and I) can't see the point, doesn't mean there is no point. Ignoring the fact that maybe there's a point somehow or somewhere is far more worse than reaching general consensus that there likely is no point at all. Modula has some weird architecture and OS dependencies, IIRC. It doesn't hurt to check it out before we commit the change. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message