Jim Meyering wrote:
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
(...which, aside from the infamous NSK/OSS you've all come to hate me
for :-) reportedly includes OS/2. According to "The Linux Programmer's
Manual" (i.e. 'man fchdir'), "The fchdir call is compatible with SVr4,
4.4BSD and X/OPEN". Note the conspicuous absence of "POSIX".)
fchdir is specified by POSIX:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fchdir.html
Hmm, well NSK/OSS does not seem to implement it. I'm not entirely clear
on the versions, is that a newer spec?
I also noticed that although there is a HAVE_FCHDIR (properly set in
config.h), it is not being used.
Right.
I did a survey, some time ago, of reasonable porting targets, and all
had fchdir. Eventually I should remove the test for fchdir, too.
So NSK/OSS has just been demoted to 'unreasonable'? Or can we go with
Bruno's suggestion and implement a wrapper ala Cygwin?
Can I rip them out? Can I emulate fchdir()?
You're welcome to try, but it's a big job.
I wouldn't bother. Using an older version of coreutils might be
a good compromise.
"Stagnate"? Never upgrade *any* GNU utilities ever again? (Ok, an
exaggeration, but not a huge one). In fact I ran into this trying to
build gzip 1.3.6, because my 1.3.5 is broken and I can't figure out why
(and also 'make check' doesn't do anything).
--
Matthew
Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor.
That's why I am using Vim. -- Anonymous
