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To: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM>
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Subject: Re: Change to stdio.h to export `cookie?' 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:15:11 MST."
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 15:13:55 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.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