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From: gene@zeno.MN.ORG (Gene H. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: setvbuf()
Message-ID: <429@zeno.MN.ORG>
Date: 21 Feb 89 13:50:10 GMT
References: <20422@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gene@zeno.MN.ORG (Gene H. Olson)
Organization: Smartware Consulting, Minneapolis, MN
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Setvbuf appeared (I believe) in System V.2 with a direct conflict
between the Manual Pages that shipped on the system, and the
libraries and lint files.

For a good while there, parameters 2 & 3 were interchanged in
/usr/lib/llib-lc and in the libraries, while the manuals always
showed the parameters as:

	setvbuf(stream, buffer, type, size)

This *feature* made its way into a number of systems (including
XENIX) over the years, and has now been corrected in V.3.

It shouldn't be a problem to lint users, since (at least in my
experience) the lint on a system always agrees with the libraries.
This is just another reason why you should always use lint.

Gene H. Olson
gene@zeno.mn.org