Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a couple of random questions
Message-ID: <10426@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 14 Apr 88 16:05:52 GMT
References: <530@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <530@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
| [...]
|      Two random questions.  First, the word "entry" used to be a
| reserved keyword in C but appears to never have been used.  Does
| anybody know the direction it might have taken had its use been
| implemented?  

  The FORTRAN version gave another name which could be called, like
another subroutine declaration. I think I used it once, just to see how
it worked.

|      Second, what is the portable way to rewind a Unix file
| descriptor?  On almost every machine I have ever used:
| 
|         lseek(fd, (off_t)0, SEEK_SET);
| 

Any implementation which doesn't use 
	lseek(int, long, int)
In the K&R manner (pg 164) will break virtually every program which uses
the feature. I have to check dpANS on this, or someone can post and tell
me that they found some way to justify doing something else.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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