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From: friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US (Stephen Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Parameter mismatch legality question
Message-ID: <571@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US>
Date: 18 Nov 90 16:41:34 GMT
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In article <14502@smoke.brl.mil>, gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 
> IEEE 1003.1 decided that open() had to be officially variadic, i.e.
> 	extern int open( const char *path, int flags, ... );
> Since this requires ANSI C support, you're best off if you let <fcntl.h>
> declare open() for you.

Unless of course you are IBM building the RS6000, where the prototype
in <fcntl.h> omits the /const/ type qualifier on the pathname.  Mighty
nice of them not to burden us with qualifiers, eh?

     Steve :-(

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