Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:46:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, nate@mt.sri.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zipfs filesystem anyone ? Message-ID: <199710241746.KAA14398@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710232211.QAA17154@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 23, 97 04:11:28 pm
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> > It means that there are side effects to the interface, and that the > > caller is dependent on the side effects. > > Kind of like strdup(3)? *grin* More like a program using: pwe = getpwnam( "bob"); /*deal with bob...*/ ... pwe ... ... pwe ... (void)getpwnam( "tom"); /*deal with tom...*/ ... pwe ... ... pwe ... With the idea that it knows that getpwnam returns a pointer to a static data area, so it's OK to only set the pointer to that area once. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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