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From: mjr@decuac.DEC.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: stdio.h problem on 4.0 (was News 2.11.19...)
Message-ID: <3319@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 90 21:42:33 GMT
References: <421@ucunix.SAN.UC.EDU> <21955@grebyn.com>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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In article <21955@grebyn.com>, karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg) writes:
: > [...] 314 is
: >something like "fileno(fp) = -1;" and 316 is "fileno(fp) = fno;")
: 
: This is definitely a problem with Ultrix. 4.0.  I just tried recomiling
: X11R4, fix 14 and got the SAME problem with Xterm.  it has to do with the
: declaration of fileno in /usr/include/stdio.h.  The Ultrix 4.0 version has
: added a cast of (int) over the 3.0 version.  This causes some real problems
: on the lhs of an assignment statement.
 

	That's not a problem with the operating system, the assignment to
fileno() in your code is broken.

	Assigning to fileno() is evil.

mjr.
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