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Re: FILE struct and _fileno



On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 09:59:05PM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  Today I came across two programs that wouldn't compile because
> of the symbol _fileno not being defined in the FILE struct.  However,
> one of these programs explictly checked for glibc.

POSIX defines FILE as an opaque structure, so programs can expect
to access elements inside this structure without breaking. I suggest
you replace all uses of F->_fileno by fileno(F).

Igor



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