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Re: port the extended stdio primitives to EMX+GCC


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: port the extended stdio primitives to EMX+GCC
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:04:18 +0200

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> The system that Elbert Pol is talking about is derived from emx+gcc (the
> old but well-known POSIX implementation for DOS and OS/2 [the DOS part was
> much more reliable than DJGPP]).
>
> I'm committing first a port for emx+gcc. Untested.
>
> Jim, at the end you find a patch to m4/fpending.m4, part of the same family
> of functions. Is that OK to commit? I derived that information from the fflush
> implementation which goes roughly like this:
>
>       n = stream->_ptr - stream->_buffer;
>       if (n > 0 && _stream_write (stream->_handle, stream->_buffer, n) <= 0)
>         {
>           stream->_flags |= _IOERR;
>           result = EOF;
>         }
>
> I put the EMX case quite far down in the list, to minimize the risk of
> disturbing an already supported platform.
...

That looks right.  Go ahead.
Thank you!




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