Re: FYI: removing HAVE_FCNTL_H tests

[Derek Price]

Jim Meyering wrote:

>Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>One platform still does not have <unistd.h>: It's Woe32 with the MSVC
>>compiler. It's unfortunately a major platform, and still alive.
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>Perhaps it's not a popular enough build environment for packages using
>gnulib.  Several existing modules include <unistd.h> unconditionally:
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>  lib/argp-parse.c
>  lib/chdir-long.c
>  lib/fts.c
>  lib/getpass.c
>  lib/openat.c
>  lib/poll.c
>  lib/utime.c
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>and yet I haven't heard any complaints.
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We dealt with it on CVS by putting the unistd.h prototypes we needed in
a unistd.h file that only gets included on WOE32.  I believe we also had
to implement a few missing POSIX functions.

Regards,

Derek

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