Re: gnulib request

[Sean Boudreau]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:54:52PM -0400, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Sean Boudreau wrote:
> > They're non standard and present challenges in the portability
> department
> > so if they aren't needed the less they're referenced the better.
> 
> I agree with you. We considered this point. (For example, there is a way
> to implement the 'close-stream' module with fpending and one without.)
> But in the case of fflush & fseek, these additional low-level functions
> appear
> to be really needed.
> 
> Bruno

Under QNX with 1.4.10 the only things that actually need
fpurge() and freading() are their tests.  The tests fail but
in this context it doesn't matter.  Or are you saying their
role has expanded post 1.4.10?

-seanb