On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Evan Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Ben Laurie<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'd be happy to do that. When I do, there's something that's already >> puzzling me, and that's OS_POSIX. >> >> I don't have a copy of the POSIX standard, at least not a recent one, >> so its hard to know what is or isn't POSIX, and I imagine I am not >> alone in that. However, various comments lead me to believe that >> OS_POSIX doesn't really mean "POSIX" in people's minds - it really >> means "UNIXish" or "not Windows" or something. >> >> How would I document this define? Is there an agreed meaning? > > I think it should just be POSIX. The places that Linux and the BSDs > will disagree are exactly the bits that aren't POSIX. You don't need > a POSIX spec for this; libc man pages have a "CONFORMING TO" section.
I'm glad there's clear consensus on this issue :-) So am I right in thinking that your view is that if its in FreeBSD and Linux it will be POSIX, almost always? And so there is no need for a UNIXISH macro? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
