From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: update-game-score Date: 06 Apr 2002 10:32:23 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8296-Sat06Apr2002111820+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018085789 24132 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 09:36:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 09:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Colin Walters , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tmcW-0006H7-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 11:36:28 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tmpw-0000tr-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 11:50:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tmc8-00085X-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 04:36:04 -0500 Original-Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.111]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tmZd-0007kg-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 04:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from host62-7-69-182.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([62.7.69.182] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 16tmZW-00010O-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 10:33:22 +0100 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id KAA00638; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:24 +0100 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <8296-Sat06Apr2002111820+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2408 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2408 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > IMHO, this code needs to take non-Posix platforms into consideration, > unless the intent is to run it only on Unix and GNU/Linux systems. > > If non-Posix systems are relevant, you should be aware that > and the getpwuid function are not universally available. Can getpwuid etc be emulated on MSDOS and Mac as they are on Windows? -- Jason Rumney