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From: "Howard Trickey" <howard@res...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installing the updates
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:12:22 -0400

> From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl...>
> Since the C standard definitely requires idempotency for the
> standard headers (except <assert.h>), at least the APE headers
> ought to conform, to ease the burden of importing non-native code.

The APE headers do indeed conform.
There are two stdio.h's; the one in /sys/include is for the "plan 9 way"
of programming (no include protection), and the one in /sys/include/ape
is for importing non-native code.