Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > >No, they won't malfunction. All AST stdio symbols have an '_ast_' > >prefix in their ELF name, for example fopen() is listed as _ast_fopen > >by elfdump > > Ah, that's kinda OK then, except for the problem of code duplication. > > Is there any particular reason why ksh needs to use ast stdio?
ksh93 and libshell use AST "sfio", not AST "stdio". One reason for this is "portabilty" (since ksh93 has to deal with many platforms with "suboptimal" (which is an understantement... =:-) ) stdio implementations) and another is simply performace... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
