[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] make demuxer_get_percent_pos() recheck file length

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 05:46, Rich Felker wrote:

> It would be nice if mingw did the minimal wrapping necessary to make
> windows libc nonbroken, without providing full posix emulation bloat.
> BTW isn't win nt/2k/xp/etc. supposed to be posix compliant (or at
> least include a layer that is)? Does that mean on modern versions of
> windows, sockets can be used as normal file descriptors?

No it has a posix subsystem, implementing the bare minimum to comply
to some minimum posix standard. It's totally isolated from the rest of the
system and if you use the posix stuff you can't actually use any of the
regular win32 stuff... It's basically just there so they can claim the certificate.


Then there's also Interix which is "full" Unix compatibility layer, supposedly
this is what they sell to customers who want to migrate stuff from Unix to
windows, and it provides enough Unix to run alot of Unix apps. Even NetBSD's
pkgsrc claims to support Interix.