Re: UID width

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:43:36 +0100

On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 11:02:23PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>
> Actually --- given that FILE *'s are supposed to be a black-box
> abstraction --- why did you have to version the interfaces just because
> the layout of FILE * is changed?

They aren't black boxes. The gnu-libio is part of a few packages, libstdc++
for example (C is not the only language, but at least C++ requires tight
coupling of C++ I/O and C I/O)

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