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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 12881@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12881: Assume at least POSIX.1-1988 for fcntl.h
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:00:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83obix4jwz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvboextvs1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,  12881@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:26:11 -0500
> 
> > But as for Eli's comment, he's quite right in saying that, when things
> > break, he's the only one to fix them.  Many of the recent changes that
> > have broken Windows need to be fixed by someone who's not only
> > well-versed on Windows development, but also POSIX.  Unfortunately the
> > number of people with that skill set is tiny among Emacs developers,
> > I think.
> 
> Yes, indeed.  I find it a bit scary, actually,

It's not.  It involves careful reading of the code and of the Posix
spec, that's all.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-16 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-14  7:37 bug#12881: Assume at least POSIX.1-1988 for fcntl.h Paul Eggert
2012-11-14 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-15  6:32   ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-15 17:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-15 20:07       ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-16  9:49         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-16 14:37           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-16 14:55             ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-16 15:26               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-16 16:00                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-16 16:29                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-16 17:41                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-16 17:10                   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-16 17:14                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-16 17:20                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-11-16 17:44                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-16 17:52                       ` Drew Adams
2012-11-17 22:17           ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-18  3:46             ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-18  4:41               ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-18 16:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-16  4:38 ` Paul Eggert

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