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Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir |
Date: |
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:22:23 +0100 |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:
>
>> Right.
>> I did a survey, some time ago, of reasonable porting targets, and all
>> had fchdir. Eventually I should remove the test for fchdir, too.
>
> FYI, mingw is another relatively-active porting target that lacks fchdir,
> which would benefit from a good fchdir replacement. As to whether you
> consider mingw a reasonable porting target, that's a different question
> (native Windows tends to be quite far from POSIX to make it a very
> difficult porting task).
Thanks.
With so many systems lacking fchdir (BeOS, Tandem NSK/OSS, and now mingw),
I suppose there is critical mass for adding fchdir support.
I'm glad you're lending a hand.