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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 04 October 2005 at 14:11, Jan Knutar wrote:
> 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.

What about SFU (Services For Unix, not Shut the F*** Up ;>)? It's free to download
now.

R.

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