Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:56:21 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 13:54:23 -0500
> 
> There are two solutions I can think of. One is to add the 
> call '__set_fd_properties(fd, 0, 0)' to [l]lseek.c to create the structure. 
> Another is to instead use a flag with '__file_handle_modes'.

I like the first alternative better, but I'm not sure I understand
fully how did you envision the second possibility.  Could you please
elaborate on it?