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


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Paulo

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