Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:18:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> "On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> 
> > -extern char *__file_handle_modes;
> > +extern unsigned short *__file_handle_modes;
> 
> Please don't!  This immediately breaks all existing libraries compiled
> with previous versions of this header.
> 
> Do we really need a short for each handle?  Did we use up all the 8
> bits in the current definition?"

Ah, that one.  Thanks for the reminder.

Well, I see two possibilities.  Either use one of the unused bits in 
__file_handle_mode (we really only use O_TEXT and O_BINARY, even though 
we smack all the lower 8 bits of the open mode into it), or use the new 
fd_properties facility introduced by Mark recently.