open, close, dup, dup2, lseek, read, write, fileno, etc.

[David Wilson]

On 2/9/08, Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk> wrote:

> Unfortunately this is so. A long time ago the POSIX standard was invented
> (or rather brought together from some early Unixes) and though low-level
> (not OO for a start) it is solid and reliable.
> The idea being if you want to write portable code you write it using only
> POSIX
> functionality.
> M$ in their finite wisdom chose to tear up the standard and invent their
> own
> and then pretend they supported it. The result is it is practically
> impossible
> to write portable code without having another wrapper layer inbetween.

ANSI C (including the standard library) wasn't standardised until
1990. The first versions of MS-DOS appeared in 1982. POSIX didn't
appear until 1988. Which standard are you referring to, or is this
just more of the same uninformed Microsoft bashing?


David.


> This is
> where language standard libraries are a godsend. Though its hard to find
> good
> portable implementations of non-blocking IO and file locking.
> I suspect this may be an area where Tango is ahead of Phobos but not
> knowing
> both APIs well I'm not in a position to comment.
>