On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:33:44 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Relying on 3rd party libraries could cause potential licensing issues (if > any part of any used 3rd party library is not BSD-compatible). > As long as the code changes are fairly small (eg changing close() to > closesocket()), they should be fairly easy to test and bugs could be > avoided.
MySQL actually shipped a release with one of these bugs, so don't bet on catching them all. There is a LOT of motor memory of POSIX hackers for writing close(). This is actually why I wrote the my_socket wrapper that existed in some branches of MySQL for a while. -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
