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magic cookie
(foldoc) | magic cookie
1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables
the receiver to perform some operation; a capability ticket
or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects
that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically
machine-dependent way. E.g. on non-Unix operating systems
with a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of "ftell"
may be a magic cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be
passed to "fseek", but not operated on in any meaningful
way. The phrase "it hands you a magic cookie" means it
returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can
be passed back to the same or some other program later.
2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g. inverse
video or underlining) or performing other control functions.
Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen
corresponding to mode-change magic cookies; this was also
called a glitch (or occasionally a "turd"; compare {mouse
droppings}).
See also cookie.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-25)
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magic cookie
(jargon) | magic cookie
n.
[Unix; common]
1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver
to perform some operation; a capability ticket or opaque identifier.
Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a
strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way. E.g., on non-Unix OSes with
a non-byte-stream model of files, the result of ftell(3) may be a magic
cookie rather than a byte offset; it can be passed to fseek(3), but not
operated on in any meaningful way. The phrase it hands you a magic cookie
means it returns a result whose contents are not defined but which can be
passed back to the same or some other program later.
2. An in-band code for changing graphic rendition (e.g., inverse video or
underlining) or performing other control functions (see also cookie).
Some older terminals would leave a blank on the screen corresponding to
mode-change magic cookies; this was also called a glitch (or occasionally
a turd; compare mouse droppings). See also cookie.
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