4.2bsd eof flag in stdio

[Bill Shannon]

Jim Balter says,
    "show me the manual page for fread that says that 0 is returned upon EOF!"

Here's an excerpt from the 4.2BSD man page for fread, V7 is identical:

DESCRIPTION
     Fread reads, into a block beginning at ptr, nitems  of  data
     of the type of *ptr from the named input stream.  It returns
     the number of items actually read.

	. . .

DIAGNOSTICS
     Fread and fwrite return 0 upon end of file or error.

He also says,
    "A change can only be considered a bug fix if it brings into
    line behavior previously out of line with the documentation."

Thank you, Jim, for justifying our change.  It seems apparent from your
argument that it was System III/V that did the wrong thing.

					Bill Shannon
					Sun Microsystems, Inc.