[comp.lang.c] _read

gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (01/08/87)

In article <565@brl-sem.ARPA> ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) writes:
>... It is just prohibitted that any of the Standard C routines such
>as PRINTF use "read." ...

Thanks to Ron for pointing this out.  The implication is that
the stdio etc. routines would have to call _read() but the UNIX
user still gets his read() routine from the library.  Thus an
implementation CAN have non-standard non-_* names in the library
after all, so long as they are essentially an orthogonal
extension to the standard-conforming part of the library.