On 09/24/11 03:38, Bruno Haible wrote: > But while doing so, we shouldn't throw the Autoconf principle overboard. > This means, we have to exerce judgement about which bugs can possibly occur > on other platforms as well, and let the fixes of Windows platforms also > benefit the Unix platforms, without code duplication.
Yes, that makes sense. > I'd really like if you could think about that. It would take away from gnulib > pressure to accommodate hacks that are for Emacs only. I don't view the simplification of dup2.c as being for Emacs only; it makes dup2.c simpler for everybody. I wouldn't be surprised if other packages don't want the overhead of the MSVC stuff, but I guess we'll see. Anyway, I should at some point say, thanks for your tireless efforts in improving this area.
