From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: asynchronous process management on WinWP; buffering problem? Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:08:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <10m877fael0h3.1kg7y6ljn4qmb$.dlg@40tude.net> <443fdf5c$1@kcnews01> <877j5r3ogd.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <444110BE.3050009@student.lu.se> <444186B1.9080502@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145279358 5148 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 13:09:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 17 15:09:15 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVTTa-0002xY-FF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:09:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVTTZ-0001ve-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:09:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVTTK-0001tY-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVTTI-0001rf-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVTTD-0001pL-Ge; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:08:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.99.153.30] (helo=seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FVTTr-0007D7-SQ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.turtle-trading.net (seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3HD89Lo006204; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:08:09 +0200 Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <444186B1.9080502@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:50:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52959 gmane.emacs.help:34413 Archived-At: 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