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- Subject: Re: Lua source does not build for iOS since recent XCode Update
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:55:37 -0300
> Between iOS, Android and UWP, it's a great excuse to throw standards
> like POSIX out of the window. The future is locked-down appliances
> on the consumer side. The last thing they want is to let you use
> system().
Just a reminder that 'system' is not POSIX; it is part of ISO C.
Because of that, it has official ways to do nothing, so one can remove
the functionality without removing the function from the library.
-- Roberto