svn commit: r187805 - head/lib/libc/stdio

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 28 05:55:53 PST 2009


On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:09:56 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:11:21 +0000 (UTC), Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Author: trhodes
> > Date: Wed Jan 28 01:11:20 2009
> > New Revision: 187805
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187805
> >
> > Log:
> >   Remove comment about clearerr() being the only method of clearing
> >   the EOF indicator, fseek() may also be used for this.
> >
> >   Bump document date.
> 
> I don't like this, sorry...  Having a pointer to clearerr() is nice.
> Removing it *deletes* useful information, but we should add _more_ of
> it.
> 
> How about this instead?
> 
>     The end-of-file indicator may be cleared by explicitly calling
>     .Fn clearerr ,
>     or as a side-effect of other operations, i.e.\&
>     .Fn fseek .

I think 'side-effect" is wrong here - it may not be a "side
effect" at all, but, on purpose.  :)

Sorry, I have no other suggestions right now.

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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