Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!wuarchive!texbell!uudell!natinst!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: stdio broken in SysV? Message-ID: <18099@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 5 Mar 90 05:29:57 GMT References: <12270@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service Lines: 17 In article <12270@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >In article thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes: >>Well, already compiled applications that uses these that works need not >>be recompiled. > >Yes they do. The _iob array element size has changed, so the offsets >determined at the last compile are not correct for the new library usage. Unless the library is shared or he is planning on re-linking the compiled C files against the new library, there is no need to recompile the program. The code he is executing hasn't been changed by the change in the FILE structure in the new library. It's still as flaky as a pie crust ... -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org