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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: bug in pclose(3)
Message-ID: <9003@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 23:04:35 GMT
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> > >Don't people EVER learn from experience?
> >No they don't, as a look at the changes made to function library interfaces
> >by the dpANS shows.
> 
> What changes?  Having just checked over my System V "lint" library for
> pANS conformance, I didn't notice any actual changes.

Check out the memory allocation functions (with their changed treatment of
NULL arguments) and fopen (where "rb+" is given new meaning) for starters--the
ground is covered in X3J11 correspondence that should be part of its records.
-- 
	Arthur David Olson    ado@ncifcrf.gov    ADO is a trademark of Ampex.