Ksh on Ultrix

Michael Murphy mm06 at bunny.UUCP
Wed Feb 10 09:23:51 AEST 1988




Some time ago I remember hearing that there was some problem in using
the Korn shell on Ultrix v1.2.  The problem was that ksh assumed that
the stdio structs were in an  array so that code like
	FILE *j;
	for(j = &_iob[0]; j <= &_iob[NFILE-1]; j++) { do stuff}

worked.  This wouldn't work on Ultrix because FILE structs for stuff
"above" stderr are malloc'd.  Do I remember the problem correctly?
Did it ever exist?  If so, has it been fixed?  Gratias Multas!
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Mike Murphy  mm06 at gte.com  harvard!bunny!mm06   gTe LaBs



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