From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 12945@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12945: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for unistd.h.
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:14:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fw44w38g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50ABC017.7060802@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:38:31 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> Here's a patch that I plan to install to simplify Emacs based
> on assuming that the underyling system supports POSIX 1003.1-1988
> or later with respect to unistd.h. This is universal these days
> on GNUish hosts, and I don't forsee any problems with Microsoft
> hosts. I'm CC:ing this to Eli, though, to give him a heads-up
> just in case.
>
> It may help in a later patch to simplify the Microsoft side by
> removing getwd and standardizing on getcwd, since that's what
> POSIX did back in 1988, but that's an issue that's independent
> of this patch.
It's not independent. The getwd in w32.c must be modified to be
getcwd instead.
Otherwise, I see no problems with this, as far as the MS-Windows build
is concerned.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-20 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 17:38 bug#12945: Assume POSIX 1003.1-1988 or later for unistd.h Paul Eggert
2012-11-20 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-20 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-20 20:51 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-21 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-21 21:07 ` Paul Eggert
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