Re: asynchronous process management on WinWP; buffering problem?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> Hi Lennart, 
>
>
> Lennart Borgman writes:
>   
>> In my opinion w32 does not look very much POSIX conformant here. Or
>> the POSIX specs are just too weak.
>>     
>
> POSIX specifies behaviour of Unix-like systems.  MS Windows doesn't
> care about POSIX and Microsoft never said that it wanted to be
> POSIX-compatible.
>
> Don't confuse this with NT's POSIX subsystem.  This is a separate OS
> running on top of the same NT kernel in parallel to MS Windows.  While
> this is nominally a complete POSIX system, it used to be lacking some
> stuff that is usually considered essential by Unix hackers, but not
> specified or (officially) optional in POSIX.  Also Microsoft's support
> for this is wavering, e.g. it is not supported on XP.
>
>
> benny
>   
Hi Benny,

Thanks for the clarifications. What made me upset before was that MS 
claims that the _isatty API is POSIX compliant while MS does not give a 
way for programs (mostly shells I guess) to tell they are tty:s. (I 
guess my words here are much to inexact, but I hope you understand what 
I mean).

I mean that if they can get away with that then it seems like the 
specifications of _isatty is too weak.