Re: Getting the file name from a FILE *

In article <KpidnS5iMetCkPTV4p2dnAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Tor Rustad  <bwzcab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>IF you did, then please explain how this make sense:
>
>"The amount of space required corresponds to the number of 
>simultaneously open files, not the total number ever opened."
>
>FYI, assume that a program open X files, load the content of all X 
>files, then close X files.

This seems to be the very "all open at once" interpretation which you
said was stupid.

>At this point, the "simultaneously open files" are only 3. If free() 
>implementation has no explicit system call to free the space allocated, 
>the memory required by the program at this point, does _not_ correspond 
>to 3 files, but to
>
>3 + X
>
>files.

Ok, the maximum number of simultaneously open files.  If you read the
files one after another (and close them as you go along), the memory
will be available to malloc() to reuse.  You would only need memory
for all 3+X if all 3+X were simultaneously open at some time, which is
why I asked why you would have all the icon files open at once.

-- Richard
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