[PATCH] libc FILE locking

Sat May 7 06:19:12 PDT 2005

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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