On 1 February 2010 07:06, Anselm R Garbe <ans...@garbe.us> wrote: > On 31 January 2010 22:40, anonymous <aim0s...@lavabit.com> wrote: >>> If you need mkstemp you have have two options: either you restrict >>> your program to run only on platforms that include it, or you >>> implement your own version. In either case there is *zero* advantage >>> of finding out at build time whatever your system includes it or not. >> >> What if there is different APIs on different systems? Example is >> clone/rfork. With configure you can choose one of them at compile time. >> And even if you want, you can't implement your own version in userspace. > > clone/rfork is the typical case for a program that won't be portable > from Linux to other Unix-like platforms. So if you use clone/rfork you > have to live with the fact that this will only work on Linux. If you > can't then write portable code instead and use fork and don't use > clone.
Having said that, in case of rfork vice versa from FreeBSD. Cheers, Anselm
