From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12881: Assume at least POSIX.1-1988 for fcntl.h Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:00:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83obix4jwz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <50A34A56.9080007@cs.ucla.edu> <83y5i4t7gm.fsf@gnu.org> <50A48C67.7020603@cs.ucla.edu> <83ip96u5ic.fsf@gnu.org> <50A54B89.2080505@cs.ucla.edu> <83mwyhswqo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353081744 31911 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2012 16:02:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:02:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 12881@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 17:02:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TZONG-0004Px-F8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:02:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZON6-00009W-BW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:02:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZON1-00008G-83 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZOMy-0003Nh-5n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:02:19 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TZOMy-0003Nd-2e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:02:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZONi-0004OD-8u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:03:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:03:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12881 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 12881-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12881.135308173016813 (code B ref 12881); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:03:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12881) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Nov 2012 16:02:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48521 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZOMq-0004N6-Ej for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:34978) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TZOMl-0004Mu-Oh for 12881@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:02:05 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MDL00E008EX7S00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 12881@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:01:15 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MDL00CW18I2Q501@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:01:15 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-Spam-Score: 0.7 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:67007 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , 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.