KSH portability

[brian at bucc2.UUCP]

> /* Written 11:47 am  May 12, 1988 by icst-cmr.arpa!rbj */
> /* ---------- "KSH portability" ---------- */
> I wrote:
> 
>    What is really needed is an fd to fp table, maintained by stdio, so that:
> 
> 	   for (fd = 0; fd < MAXFD; fd ++)
> 		   fp = fdtofp[fd] && fflush(fp);
> 
>    Anything weird about this idea?

  Won't

FILE *fdtofp(int fd) { return &_iob[fd] };

  work? Look at stdio.h...

> What is *really* needed is an array of FILE**, maintained by stdio so
> that one could do:
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < FILEMAX; i++)
> 		if (FILES[i]) do_something_with(FILES[i]);
> 

	for (i = 0; i < _NFILE; i++)
		if (???) do_something_with(&_iobuf[i]);

  I don't know what flag in _iobuf tells you whether the entry is
used or not. I also don't know how reliable and/or portable this is.


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