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Re: Paul Edward's POSIX changes
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Paul Edwards |
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Re: Paul Edward's POSIX changes |
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Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:45:05 GMT |
"Derek Robert Price" <derek@ximbiot.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.929.1070393520.399.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
> Paul, you never answered a question I asked some time ago. Do the POSIX
Sorry, I don't remember seeing it.
> changes you sent allow for the elimination of the os2 & emx directories,
No.
> or would that involve possible loss of functionality in some situations?
The OS/2, EMX and Windows directories do things above
and beyond Posix. E.g. they allow "\" to be used as a
directory separator, whereas that is not required for a
"unspecified posix environment". Also it doesn't produce
CR/LF in the line terminators, although it probably
should use the native format by default. I do not think any
of the directories should be eliminated.
BFN. Paul.