It is not advisable to mix calls to output functions from the stdio library with low-level calls to write() for the file descriptor associated with the same output stream

So ... there will be no problem if foo() and print() write to different streams. And if foo() and print() do need to write to the same stream then there's *nothing* I can do to ensure that the output will not be garbled. Is that what the above quote is telling me ?

I'm just trying to get an understanding of what *can* and *can't* be done here. I know I can't use fputs() in XSubs (I've tried), but I had hoped it would be possible to have ab XSub safely and sanely call an external C library function that uses fputs().

Thanks, shmem.

Cheers,
Rob

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