Posix vs. Windows

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 18-05-2012 20:53, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 18.05.2012 18:53, schrieb Alex Rønne Petersen:
>> 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. ;)
>>
>
> Easy,
>
> Initially Windows NT family only supported POSIX.1, due to US federal
> requirements, later on it was improved by Interix und SUA
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
>
> More information here,
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772343
> fork() ==> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754234
>
>
> --
> Paulo

Right, but that's not really Win32 out of the box. Cygwin implemented it 
too, in user land.

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