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.
next prev parent 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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