On 2009 Feb 14, at 12:01, Leon Timmermans wrote an unending refrain of:
Why should this do POSIX? What about non-POSIX operating systems?
I think the point here is that on POSIX systems that gets you ioctl() and fcntl(), and on non-POSIX systems either they don't exist or they throw runtime errors. Aside from my earlier suggestion that non-POSIX systems generally have similar functions for which we should consider a common rubric, I'm not sure if this ("does IO::POSIX") is backwards or if my/our(?) understanding of "does" is backwards, or possibly tangential.
-- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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