Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/26/20:55:29
Date: | Wed, 26 Jun 1996 20:51:21 -0400
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From: | dj (DJ Delorie)
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Message-Id: | <199606270051.UAA18166@delorie.com>
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To: | eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
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CC: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In-reply-to: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.960626160908.8317C-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:17:34 +0200 (IST))
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Subject: | Re: FSE, some questions
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> I'm not sure this is such a good idea. Under MS-DOS, `ioctl' means a
> totally different thing, so it might be a source of subtle bugs (if
> somebody tries to compile a program that comes from BC, say, and uses
> `ioctl'). I remember some discussion about this about a year ago. Maybe
> its worthwhile to ask DJ.
Heck, even under *Unix* ioctl is a mysterious function.
If someone comes up with an implementation that does what both naive
dos programmers and naive unix programmers expect, and doesn't violate
POSIX, I'll put it in libc.
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