Justin,

> I think stdio.3 should reference unlocked_stdio. 

Done for 2.33.  (And created the converse reference also.)  Thanks.

> I'm not sure I like the situation with both of stdin.3 and stdio.3:
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3391 Apr  3 15:36 /usr/share/man/man3/stdio.3.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1782 Apr 28 08:36 /usr/share/man/man3/stdin.3.gz
> 
> It would be pretty easy to integrate the content of stdin into stdio;
> a quick look reveals the following need to be mentioned:
> 
>   tty, and ``redirection'' from sh.1
>   STDIN_FILENO, STDOUT_FILENO, and STDERR_FILENO and freopen
>   input streams are by default line buffered by the terminal driver
> 
> If you think this would be useful I will suggest a patch.

I don't think the situation is too serios.  Leave it.

Cheers,

Michael

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