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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,alt.lang.cfutures
Subject: Re: STDIO (Re: TRUE and FALSE)
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Date: 7 Sep 90 23:25:08 GMT
References: <17632@haddock.ima.isc.com> <38Q5QG2@xds13.ferranti.com> <STEPHEN.90Sep7125034@estragon.uchicago.edu>
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In article <STEPHEN.90Sep7125034@estragon.uchicago.edu> stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) writes:
> Another thing that is needed is a function
>    FILE *pseudof
>      ( int (*producer)(void *handle, char *buf, size_t len)
>      , int (*consumer)(void *handle, char const *buf, size_t len)
>      , void *handle
>      , char const *mode
>      );

That's pretty cool, man. I like it. Except that in my ideal stdio the
mode is back to being a binary mask, but that was easy to miss. The
mas would have values like:

	O_RONLY	O_RDWR	O_WRONLY
	O_BINARY
	O_APPEND
	O_UNBUFFERED
	etc...

> That signature needs further thought - maybe it needs a flush/close
> function as well, e.g.; but it's not so far away.

Sounds good.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.