Re: poslib port for Win32 platforms?

["David Burgess" <david@...>]

If the consensus is that Cygwin is a better alternative
I won't bother.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio E. Scuri" <scuri@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: poslib port for Win32 platforms?


>
>    Last time I tried I stop on the following functions:
>
> TIME
>       times
>
> SYSCONF
>      uname
>      sysconf
>
> PROCAUTH
>      setuid
>      setgid
>      getpwnam
>      getpwuid
>      getgrnam
>      getgrgid
>      geteid
>      getgid
>      getuid
>      getpgrp
>      getppid
>      getpid
>
> FILE
>      opendir
>      readir
>      closedir
>      pathconf
>      fpathconf
>      link
>      chown
>
>    Because they do not have a direct map to Win32 functions, including
> MSVCRT.LIB.
>
>    I suggest to use Cygwin, or at least to copy their implementation and
to
> keep poslib code intact as possible.
>
> Regards,
> scuri
>
>