>> I'm not a fan of uioskip() as a name - [...] > I agree. "skip" seem to have wrong connotations (cf. dd(1)).
I'm not sure I agree. (The dd analogy is weak; dd has no peek operation, and uioskip - under whatever name - would border on useless without uiopeek.) For uioskip, it _is_ skip semantics. The bytes skipped are not copied anywhere, not by uioskip. (They may have been copied earlier with uiopeek, but that doesn't affect what uioskip does.) If you want skip-*with*-copy, well, uiomove is still there. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
