On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:08:15 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > : Since the internal members of FILE aren't available to users, you don't
 > : *have* to keep this info *directly* in FILE.  It would be another structure
 > : logically associated with a given instance of a FILE.  You could reference
 > : these other structures in a hash table, using a FILE * as a value to hash
 > : for the lookup.
 > 
 > Couldn't it be made part of the `cookie'?

Oh my, it certainly could...  I forgot all about that :-)

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