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diff --git a/devel/sfio/DESCR b/devel/sfio/DESCR index 8957dd1edf7..1756231df33 100644 --- a/devel/sfio/DESCR +++ b/devel/sfio/DESCR @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ -Sfio is a portable library for managing I/O streams. It provides +Sfio is a portable library for managing I/O streams. It provides similar functionality to the ANSI C Standard I/O functions known -collectively as Stdio. However, it has a distinct interface and is +collectively as Stdio. However, it has a distinct interface and is generally faster and more robust than most Stdio implementations. +(For backward compatibility, Sfio provides two Stdio emulation packages.) Sfio also introduces a number of new features and concepts beyond Stdio stream I/O processing: @@ -14,32 +15,8 @@ Stdio stream I/O processing: + Robust handling of variable-sized records, and + Extensible printf/scanf-like formatting I/O operations. -For backward compatibility, Sfio provides two Stdio emulation -packages. An application with source code can include the header file -stdio.h provided by Sfio instead of the native one to translate Stdio -calls to Sfio calls. An application already compiled with the native -header file stdio.h can make use of Sfio functionality by linking with -the library libstdio.a which emulates Stdio functions. In fact, it is -safe to mix and match modules that are compiled with either -Sfio-provided or native stdio.h. - -The current distribution of Sfio is Sfio1998. This version of the -library is portable to all known UNIX platforms including various -flavors of IRIX, SUNOS, Solaris, Ultrix, MVS/OpenEdition, Linux and -BSDI. The library handles 64-bit streams on platforms that support -64-bit files. The formatting family of functions (e.g., sfprintf() -and sfscanf()) have been extended so that applications can redefine -the meanings of predefined patterns as well as define new patterns. -The manual page has more details on recent changes. - -Below are papers related to Sfio: - -David G. Korn and Kiem-Phong Vo, ``Sfio: Safe/Fast String/File IO'', -Proceedings of the Summer '91 Usenix Conference, pp. 235-256, 1991. - -Glenn S. Fowler, David G. Korn and Kiem-Phong Vo, -``Feature-Based Portability'', Proceedings of the Usenix VHLL -Conference, pp. 197-207, 1994. - -Kiem-Phong Vo, ``An Architecture for Reusable Libraries'', -Proc. of the IEEE Fifth Int. Conf. on Software Reuse, 1998. +The current distribution of Sfio is Sfio1998. The library handles 64-bit +streams on platforms that support 64-bit files. The formatting family of +functions (e.g., sfprintf() and sfscanf()) have been extended so that +applications can redefine the meanings of predefined patterns as well as +define new patterns. |