Re: [PATCH] libc FILE locking

[David Xu <davidxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> 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
I don't have such code, it is a copy-pasto, I will fix it.