Jim Meyering wrote: > > I've just removed all tests for HAVE_FCNTL_H from coreutils. > > It's been gone in at least one place since coreutils-5.0 (2004-04-02) > > The same applies to HAVE_UNISTD_H and unistd.h
One platform still does not have <unistd.h>: It's Woe32 with the MSVC compiler. It's unfortunately a major platform, and still alive. Also, <unistd.h> is less dependable for GNU programs than <fcntl.h>, because someone creates a brand new operating system different in style from Unix, he will typically implement the ISO C headers but not POSIX <unistd.h>. (Some recent operating systems like BeOS or MacOS X have a Unix underneath, but others don't.) So for the sake of ease of porting to new OSes, I would leave HAVE_UNISTD_H in place. Bruno _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
