Posix vs. Windows

Alex Rønne Petersen alex at lycus.org
Fri May 18 09:53:54 PDT 2012


On 18-05-2012 18:42, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 09:37:23AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> [...]
>> If you're targeting Windows then use Windows APIs, if Posix then
>> Posix.  Windows does claim Posix support, but it's really pretty
>> terrible and Druntime doesn't have declarations for the Posix Windows
>> interface anyway.
>
> Does Windows conform to the Posix spec at all? I highly doubt it, esp.
> some parts that just goes against how Windows works.
>
>
> T
>

Try doing fork() on Windows. ;)

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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