Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:13:55 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, markd@grizzly.com Subject: Re: Change to stdio.h to export `cookie?' Message-ID: <1918.822093235@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:15:11 MST." <199601182215.PAA20081@bsdi.BSDI.COM>
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> Hmm. One problem here is that the cookie in a regular old fopen()ed > file *is* used; it points back to the FILE struct. A user-definable > field should probably be separate. If you fiddle with stdout->_cookie, > you will get burned.... So what you're basically telling me is that if I want a handy data hook to use from other systems, I should not use the cookie and simple extend the structure for this? Hmmm.. Jordan
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