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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Binary I/O on stdin/stdout?
Message-ID: <7576@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 29 Mar 88 13:20:02 GMT
References: <302@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <225800017@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <7565@brl-smoke.ARPA> <8036@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8036@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>Couldn't freopen simply return ((FILE *) 0) in such cases, much as
>localtime is allowed to return -1 if local time can't be determined?

Sure; but then what good does it to to specify the facility if
portable code couldn't rely on it working?