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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: caddr_t
Message-ID: <2039@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 11 Mar 91 01:50:34 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.192533.717@citib.com>
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In article <1991Mar8.192533.717@citib.com> scairns@citib.com (Scott Cairns) writes:
>Can anyone give me a consise description of exactly
>what "caddr_t" is?  It's not in K & R (version 1).

It's usually typedef-ed to be `char *'.

It's used in the kernel, so if you're not coding for the kernel, don't
use it.  The `wchan' argument to sleep()% is a `caddr_t'.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''

% Kernel sleep routine, not sleep(3).