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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: stdio on SYSV vrs BSD
Message-ID: <12763@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 May 90 06:06:29 GMT
References: <558@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <558@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> waldorf@venice.sedd.trw.com (Jerry Waldorf) writes:
>	In the file /usr/include/stdio.h on a BSD box, there is a defined:
>#define _IOSTRG	0100
>	What exactly is this used for?  What is the equivalent on SYSV machines?

It's a flag bit used internally by sprintf() and sscanf(), in a FILE structure
that they own, to indicate that I/O is from/to a memory buffer, instead of the
usual file descriptor in a user-supplied FILE structure.  UNIX System V often
uses a totally different kludge for this; in Release 2 it was to reserve the
last _iob[] member for this purpose.  Better approaches are possible.