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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX (was Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada)
Date: 1996/04/11
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Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00
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"What Robert is complaining about is that he is reading a 68 byte file by
requesting 1000 bytes; and that in his opinion, read should stop reading
at the end of the file, and return control."

First of all, this is not Robert's code, he has not written in C for a
while. Second, Robert does not particularly have an opinion about what
read should or should not do!

Robert was only pointing this out as an example of non-portability
caused by sloppy specifications.