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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
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Subject: Re: System V manuals (was Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers...)
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Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 14:56:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  3 14:56:54 1987
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In article <29585@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>First of all, the generic System 5 release 2 manual are arranged the same way
>>as the SVID.
>BA_OS.  Which allegedly "generic" version are you referring to?

I'm afraid we don't have comp.unix.wizards here. If you want to move out of
comp.lang.c, how about comp.misc?

Anyway, after a couple of tries at getting to comp.unix.wizards, here's the
info.

The UNIX System User's Manual.
Copyright (c) 1986 by AT&T. All rights reserved.
Published by Prentice-Hall.
ISBN 0-13-938242-9 025

This book is being distributed nationwide as the "standard" SV manual. If
it's wrong, there's something really strange going on.

....

I don't believe you could implement "read" as a library routine and retain the
attribute of leaving the file descriptor at the point last read, unless you
were to "implement" it by making a direct call to the existing read routine.
Certainly buffering would be out.
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