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From: roland@ai.mit.edu (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Re: File pointer to a memory location?
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Date: 11 Sep 90 05:28:56 GMT
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The GNU C library (which I have not yet released) has `fmemopen':

/* Create a new stream that refers to a memory buffer.  */
extern FILE *fmemopen(char *s, size_t len, const char *modes);

I believe Chris Torek's stdio for 4.4 BSD has something similar.
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