On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Ben Laurie<b...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I'd be happy to do that. When I do, there's something that's already
> puzzling me, and that's OS_POSIX.
>
> I don't have a copy of the POSIX standard, at least not a recent one,
> so its hard to know what is or isn't POSIX, and I imagine I am not
> alone in that. However, various comments lead me to believe that
> OS_POSIX doesn't really mean "POSIX" in people's minds - it really
> means "UNIXish" or "not Windows" or something.
In practice, it's used to mean "UNIXish." That is, it means "things
the Mac and Linux ports have in common that Windows does not."
OS_UNIXISH might have been a better name...
--Amanda
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