Subject: Re: Tinderbox tyrant (wv issues)
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 06:51:18 CDT
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, sam th wrote:
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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
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> > 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?
>
If you mean me ... Neutrino supports all of the above.
Thomas
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