On Jun 2 15:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You could do things the other way around, so that NtCreateFile is used > in the main code which invokes a NtCreateFile wrapper for 9x systems but > I am leery of doing things this way since that means that the only > people capable of writing code for cygwin are the people who understand > Nt* calls. That is a subset of the already small number of people who > understand the UNIX and Windows APIs well enough to work on Cygwin.
I don't see this as such a big problem. The Nt calls are not used all over the place and they are not needed all over the place. Using them carefully and in a well documented manner should keep it pretty simple to follow. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/