Subject: Re: Tinderbox tyrant (wv issues)
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 15 2000 - 13:23:41 CDT
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
> ["fd", tmpnam and portability snipped]
> >
> > Well whatever ... read/write/open are standard C file operations
>
> "standard C file operations"? Really? ;->
>
> Last time I checked open/read/write were not ANSI C, and I would be really,
> *really*, surprised if ANSI C 9x made it part of the library. That is the
> *only* "standard" I know about when discussing C. And even if they did vote
> these in it wouldn't affect the incorrectness of the code discussed. C++
> does not derive from C9x.
Well, FWIW, the man pages on my system say that read, etc, are part of
POSIX, but not ANSI.
Also, these same manpages reccomend the use of tmpfile() instead of either
mkstemp() or tmpnam(). Tom, can you tell us what's available on your
system?
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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