> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > > This looks interesting. We could remove some of our ifwin cruft.
> > >
> > > I have been thinking for quite some time that most of the CYGWIN32
> > > ifdefs represent very poor programming. Instead of zillions of
> > >
> > > #ifndef __CYGWIN32__
> > > fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY, 0666);
> > > #else
> > > fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0666);
> > > #endif
> > >
> > > we should have in one include file something like
> >
> > Do we ever assign a function pointer for open() anywhere. If so, the
> > define will not work without some kind of wrapper, right?
>
> Okay, I'm lost ... if we "#define OPEN_FLAGS .." and not the open itself,
> why would we need some kind of wrapper?
No, the original person was refining open(). I�think defining the flags
is much better.
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