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Message-ID: <20130318040824.GN20323@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:08:24 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: question: hard-coded file descriptors in
stdin/stdout/stderr
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:50:01PM -0500, Strake wrote:
> On 17/03/2013, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
> > Rather,
> > it makes OUR lives easier, because FOSS projects can just target POSIX
> > and keep their cores simple
>
> Actually, we can do that anyhow.
Well of course those of us who don't care about Windows support can do
that. The problem is that many people do care about Windows support,
and thus we're stuck with lots of mess. I'd really like to see a next
generation of applications that aren't full of hacks for
"portability".
Rich
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