From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:34:27 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1301240132540.3249@Ryou-VM1.yauncle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130124060205.GQ24498@bitmover.com>
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 04:46:51PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>> Ronald Natalie scripsit:
>>> Why on earth did they preserve the silly fread/fwrite size feature
>>> that just multiplies the two middle args together long after it was
>>> realized that portability doesn't demand making such a distinction.
>>
>> I like the idea: essentially it's about reading or writing an array
>> of a specified type.
>
> As a SPARC guy (in the past), I think it may have had something to do
> about alignment.
>
> That said, I hate the fread/fwrite interfaces. We're fixing them in
> our stdio. freadn(f, buf, n).
>
That syntax makes sense. Though you'd prolly need a "#define
fread(b,s,n,f) freadn(f,b,((s)*(n)))", right? For backward compatibility.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-23 17:56 Michael Spacefalcon
2013-01-23 21:08 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-23 21:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 21:46 ` John Cowan
2013-01-24 6:02 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-24 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2013-01-24 14:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-24 14:52 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-24 16:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-24 18:31 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2013-01-25 2:06 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-24 16:21 ` Clem Cole
2013-02-01 0:28 ` Larry McVoy
2013-01-31 23:52 ` Random832
2013-02-01 0:06 ` Warner Losh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-23 4:03 Nevin Liber
2013-01-23 4:41 ` Warren Toomey
2013-01-23 4:58 ` Warner Losh
2013-01-23 14:16 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-23 15:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 15:24 ` Armando Stettner
2013-01-23 17:49 ` scj
2013-01-23 18:19 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 19:33 ` Ronald Natalie
2013-01-23 19:59 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-23 22:43 ` Mary Ann Horton
2013-01-24 0:01 ` Clem Cole
2013-01-24 0:37 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
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