Joseph Kowalski wrote: > I seem to recall squashing a request to do that many years ago (with > great relish). > Maybe twice. Speaking of "squashing", there have been multiple attempts to publicly expose these symbols. The rationale is that third party libraries could use the same trick - by binding to _read() rather than read(). That "trick" has merit, but I don't think it ever happened.
(Bart, I think you were a proponent of this. Comments?) - jek3
