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From: jmsellens@WATERLOO.CSNET (John M Sellens)
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Subject: Re: Vax C V2.0 open bug
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Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 04:43:07 EST
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"That was no bug, that was my wife"

Any program that relies on getting a particular file descriptor at a
particular point in its execution is broken.  If you care what unit
number you get, use dup() or freopen().  Sure enough someone will add
some code to open a log or error file or something, and the whole
shebang will stop working.

My sympathies to anyone forced (at gunpoint presumably) to port such broken
code.

John

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