[cs631apue] function forward declarations

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Wed Sep 8 21:02:59 EDT 2021


Timothy Wang <twang77 at stevens.edu> wrote:

> This leads me to believe that the underlying
> implementation of getlogin is written in the OS
> itself and C code will only have to declare the
> function either through unistd.h or writing ?char  *
> getlogin(void);?.

Any other takers?

What about other functions, like, say, "printf" or
"open" and "close"?

Can we forward declare those ourselves, or must we
include a header for them?

-Jan


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