Re: MSL C.PPC.Lib (pro 5 -> pro 6)

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From: MWRon
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:58

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In article <TmBL5.1562$1E.121808@nntp1.onemain.com>, "David Williss"
<dwilliss@microimages.com> wrote:

>In fact, I see the problem he's talking about in the normal fcntl.h, not
>just
>the private one.  It proptotypes _open, _creat,  and _fcntl, then defines
>the correct names without underscores as inlines, but ONLY if POSIX
>is defined.  If you don't define POSIX, you don't get them at all.

Right this is how it should work,  if you wanted the same functionality
but did not want to define POSIX you could use the leading underscore
version.  (Leading underscores followed by lower case are reserved for
library vendors to avoid conflicts)

>Wait, you're saing open() _isn't_ ANSI?   Hmmmm... Sure enough.  Acording
>to the man page on my Linux system, open() conforms to SVr4, SVID,
>POSIX, X/OPEN and BSD 4.3.

Do you understand our reasoning now, if you don't agree with it please let
me know.

Ron

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