On 17 Dec 1999 13:26:21 -0800 
 Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org> wrote:

 > Probably not.  But please read what I wrote about stdio file locking,
 > since noone has responded as to how they think it should happen, and
 > I'm following the commercial (BSDI) method.

Changing the size of FILE is ... well, obviously unacceptable.

BSDI was able to get away with it because they didn't have dynamically
linked shared libraries.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>