use of _s[io]buf in stdio library
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Thu Aug 15 13:20:53 AEST 1985
>> I have thought about using them in my own programs...
>Don't!! They are a detail of the implementation of stdio, and are *not*
>guaranteed to be present in all implementations.
In fact, they are *gone* in Sun Unix (1.3? something like that). Quite
a surprise, actually. They're also no longer used in 4.3BSD (I think)
but are still in the C library (so those of you who have [mis]used them
won't notice).
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