Re: Dangerous glibc byte/wide stream interactions

[Ulrich Drepper]

Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> How about at least implementing fwide() such that it allows to switch
> the orientation of streams (if the distinction of stream orientations is
> really necessary at all)?

The distinction is of course necessary and I have no intention to
change this.  There are perfectly well suitable methods to mix wide
strings and byte strings in the stdio functions and this is portable.

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