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From: Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com>
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Subject: Re: Change to stdio.h to export `cookie?'
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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