Re: [PATCH] libc FILE locking

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07.05.2005, at 07:50, David Xu wrote:
>  /*
> + * We need to retain binary compatibility for a while.  So pretend
> + * that _lock is part of FILE * even though it is dereferenced off
> + * _extra now.  When we stop encoding the size of FILE into binaries
> + * this can be changed in stdio.h.  This will reduce the amount of
> + * code that has to change in the future (just remove this comment
> + * and #define).
> + */

why would any sane code use the size of FILE? This is an opaque handle! 
Do you have some pointers for me?

cheers
  simon

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