Re: Structure Pointer

Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Keith Thompson <kst-u@xxxxxxx> writes:
"santosh" <santosh.k83@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
He (Ken) said that in jest. There're far more cryptic calls like brk.

But "break" is a keyword.

As a side note, in the 6th Edition kernel, brk was named sbreak,
with this comment above it:

bad planning: "break" is a dirty word in C.

Modern Unixish systems have both brk() and sbrk().

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