Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
>> Right.
>> I did a survey, some time ago, of reasonable porting targets, and all
>> had fchdir.  Eventually I should remove the test for fchdir, too.
>
> FYI, mingw is another relatively-active porting target that lacks fchdir,
> which would benefit from a good fchdir replacement.  As to whether you
> consider mingw a reasonable porting target, that's a different question
> (native Windows tends to be quite far from POSIX to make it a very
> difficult porting task).

Thanks.
With so many systems lacking fchdir (BeOS, Tandem NSK/OSS, and now mingw),
I suppose there is critical mass for adding fchdir support.

I'm glad you're lending a hand.