Linux vs. libio

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.COM
Mon Dec 20 18:19:00 GMT 1999


I wrote:

> Are you sure that you understand Mark's proposal?  I ask this because
> your assertion is incorrect -- there would be two separate libio's
> involved.  (This is not a new thing: we used tricks like these back
> in the libc5 days sometimes).

Whoops, it appears that I was assuming that Mark was thinking of doing
things this way, but now I see that this is not at all clear.  But yes,
libio as originally written was designed to be used this way (either
as both the C and the C++ I/O implementation, or as only the C++
implementation).



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