From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:03:00 -0500
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Subject: Re: O_TEMPORARY v3
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> The real issue here is this: do we want to record as many handles as
> possible in __fd_properties, to avoid adverse effects on code that
> uses e.g. _open and open interspersely?

I think the call should stay at as high a level as possible and limit the 
calls to __set_fd_properties in open and maybe _open.  And document that low 
level functions won't work with it (which I already do actually).

Mark