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Sean Conner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The biggest limitation---you can't treat an arbitrary region of
> memory as a FILE *.

On BSD (including Mac OS) there is funopen() which is roughly equivalent
to glibc's fopencookie(). Both allow you to plug in your own IO functions
behind stdio's buffering.

Tony.
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