Re: OT: Is "fileno()" conform to ANSI or POSIX?

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Mon Mar 05 2001 - 10:48:13 PST

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    "Collins, Martin" wrote:
    >
    > Oliver Rauch asked:
    > > The question is if I can expect that fileno() is available
    > > on most/all systems xsane does compile on.
    >
    > I believe fileno() is specified in POSIX 1003.1 and is available
    > on HP-UX, AIX and QNX as well as in glibc. So you're probably safe
    > using it.

    Fine, thanks.

    By the way, does anyone know if mmap does anything else than
    buffer=malloc(size) + fread(buffer, size, 1, file) ?

    This way I would not depend on mmap and fileno.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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