Re: Informix running on Linux

Jonathan Leffler said to st-ID: >}If there is significant overhead in porting standard C using >}POSIX/Single UNIX Spec interfaces then they need to attend to >}their code base anyway... > >Well, there are pieces of code that would benefit from being cleaned up, >but in case you've not looked at the POSIX.1:1996 standard, it does not >mention shared memory or semaphores, nor any of the networking system >calls, nor ... > >In other words, although POSIX is a fine standard, it is not sufficient for >handling OnLine. And the Single UNIX Spec tends to rubber stamp everything they could find. But you don't necessarily have to implement it all to be compliant :-). Even so using the existing standards (and the draft POSIX bits where they are implemented) avoids many (most?) of the pitfalls. Until you try to support Win32... Mike -- .----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Mike Jagdis | Internet: mailto:mike@roan.co.uk | | Roan Technology Ltd. | | | 54A Peach Street, Wokingham | Telephone: +44 118 989 0403 |