Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: News 2.11.19 on Ultrix 4.0???
Message-ID: <14367@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 02:19:23 GMT
References: <421@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 17

In article <421@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU> rainwatr@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Don Rainwater) writes:
> I can't compile the file rfuncs2.c because it doesn't like
> having fileno(fp) on the lhs of an assignment operator.  (The offending
> lines are 314 and 316 in this file, if you're interested.  314 is
> something like "fileno(fp) = -1;" and 316 is "fileno(fp) = fno;")
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!  Am I doing something wrong or
> is there a problem with Ultrix 4.0???  Thanks in advance.

There's nothing wrong with Ultrix in this case, the fileno()= is perversion
that only "works" if fileno() is a macro, which it certainly isn't guaranteed
to be.  I've heard this one before and I think the fix to the source turns
out to be fairly simple. (but don't ask me)
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,     uucp:   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing:   domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
Commodore, Engineering Department     phone:  215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)