Re: Update on the lexer-no-stdio patch

At 11:55 06/05/2003, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Zeev Suraski wrote: The problem with POSIX IO under Windows is generally that it's a bit of a 'bastard child'. It works, but it shows some anomalies in certain situations. I *think* that if we limit ourselves to just simple read()'s, we should do fine. The problem start pouring in when you try some more complex stuff like fdopen(), use sockets, etc. Or try something like this: fd = open(...) // file op send(fd, ...) // socket op Windows doesn't like that either, and it's not even complex ;-)

I said "fdopen(), use sockets" :) Zeev