On 19/09/2006, at 11:39 PM, Peter Machell wrote:

On 19/09/2006, at 11:05 PM, Horst Herb wrote:

(and no, Peter, NT is NOT fully POSIX compliant)

I know - I started to qualify this but it sounded too religious so I deleted it.
For this purpose, it can be made compliant enough.

Actually that's not quite right either.

Let's just say that it would need to run on Windows to gain short- term market share, and that the programming overhead required to build POSIX + Windows is an unfortunate but necessary cost.

if (Win32)
        do complicated workaround
elif (Win64)
        do extremely complicated workaround
else
        do code that makes sense

Peter.

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