Re: [dev] Re: [sbase] Portability

From: Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 10:35:27 +0000

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 05:12:17AM -0500, Random832 wrote:
> Dimitris Papastamos <sin_AT_2f30.org> writes:
> > sbase should only contain code that runs on POSIX systems (with some
> > minor exceptions) and fallback implementations for non-standardized
> > interfaces that can be implemented portably on top of POSIX interfaces.
>
> So there's no place for fallback implementations _of_ POSIX interfaces
> on top of either older POSIX interfaces or non-standard ones?

I would like to avoid that for upstream. If you do push the libcompat patchset
to the wiki, you can add fallback implementations as needed.

> Anyway, here's a patch for some data type issues that came up - more to
> do with compiling with all warnings, though the fact that clock_t is
> unsigned on OSX helped catch one of them.

Applied with some modifications. Thanks!
Received on Thu Nov 26 2015 - 11:35:27 CET