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In article <8tk79f$2lr$1@mserv2.dl.ac.uk>, "Gareth J Baker"
<G.J.Baker@dl.ac.uk> wrote:

>There has been a change in fcntl.mac.h in MSL from pro 5 to pro 6. the
>definition of 'open' in pro 5 is now  '_open' (with an underscore) in pro 6.
>A definition of 'open' is inlined to _open but only within a #ifdef POSIX
>construct.
>
>Does anyone know any possible reason for this?

First you shouldn't have been using fcntl.mac.h in the first place for
open(), you should have used the POSIX standard header.   If you had you
would not have noticed any change.   Metrowerks standard libraries include
the source and the header files so that users can use them but you should
not expect any non standard header to be unchanging, that is why we use
these variations.

Now, if you choose to use the function open in your code you are free to
do so since it is not an ANSI/ISO function.  However if you want to use
the POSIX function (which we allow by default) you can use that too.  You
now only have to change the configuration file and it is fixed for the
entire library.

So now...
POSIX is an option globally
Header files are consistent across platforms
Easier to find the correct declaration 
Easier to maintain code and make changes as a user
More POSIX is now available on Macintosh


And there are several other reasons that this approach is better for the
programmer.

Ron

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