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From: chris@cs.hw.AC.UK (Chris Miller)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: fopen(), etc. in X3J11 Draft Standard
Message-ID: <842@brahma.cs.hw.AC.UK>
Date: Sun, 8-Jun-86 09:55:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: brahma.842
Posted: Sun Jun  8 09:55:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Jun-86 06:47:29 EDT
Reply-To: chris@cs.hw.ac.uk (Chris Miller)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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I notice that the February 1986 X3J11 draft standard for C omits
mention of fopen(), freopen() and fclose() (except in the index, which
is full of errors and appears to refer to an earlier draft).

Am I right to assume that this omission is deliberate?  I can see that
some systems may be unable to provide the facility of opening a file
whose name is supplied from within a program, but would have thought
that in practice such systems are now very rare.  In any case, there
should surely be a form of words that allows the standard to say "this
facility need not be available, but if it is, it should look like
this"; in effect, this has been done with kill/signal.

Or is the omission simply a slip of the word-processor?
-- 
	Chris Miller, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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