Reed,

Thanks for the warning. The BSD routines will be compiled and
linked as part of the InterBase engine on Solaris. (Down group,
this is not significant bloat.) Those handles never leave the
engine.

However, we do plan to document the ib_stdio.h and all its little
pals so people writing UDF's can use it. UDF's that use buffered
file I/O will fail in the same way as our internal fopens on
Solaris with large numbers of users. That documentation should
(must) include a warning not to pass an open file to a different
process.

Regards,

Ann