Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically
From: [email-masked] ("Mikey")

17 May 1997 08:12:58 -0700
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Well, since you obviously know what you're talking about,
would you mind taking a look at the cdk/winsup/

dir, and giving us the benefit of your advice on
fixing THIS implementation to do "The Right Thing :^)"?

PS. look out for default text/binary handleing.
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From: Jason Zions <[email-masked]>
To: Mikey <[email-masked]>
Cc: cygnus <[email-masked]>
Date: Saturday, May 17, 1997 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: Picking up include directories automatically

>Actually, using a doubled-slash is indeed POSIX; a leading double-slash
>in a pathname is explicitly called out as implementation-defined, and a
>portable application should (a) deal with it without blowing up, and (b)
>not ascribe any particular meaning to it. If anyone is interested, I can
>get a specific chapter-and-verse citation.
>
>The OpenNT POSIX-conforming environment for NT uses
>//<driveletter>/<path> consistently, with very few (if any) source
>changes required to publicly-available code. Once the
>tmpdir()/tmpnam()/tempnam() functions are modified to "do the right
>thing", most apps simply need slight changes to environment variables or
>compile-time #defines to build correctly. Apache, for instance, came up
>quite easily under OpenNT 2.0alpha and 2.0beta.
>
>Disclosure: I work for Softway Systems, maker of OpenNT.
>
>Jason Zions
>http://www.softway.com
>(email address diddled to prevent spamming)
>
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