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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Function prototypes versus open()
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Date: Sat, 6-Jun-87 16:22:19 EDT
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> Instead of answering your question, I'd just like to mention that I think the
> addition of a third argument to open() was a really dumb move by AT&T.  This
> causes open() to be weakly variadic without need, and creates nonportable
> code since neither BSD nor Research UNIX has implemented this, to the best
> of my knowledge.

Nope.  4.2BSD implemented the three-argument "open".
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com


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