Point taken, several times over.

The problem is not for code that I write, but for code I have to _port_.

Johan Danielsson sez:
/*
 * greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com (I presume I need no introduction.) writes:
 * 
 * > There are certain fundamental things that can be asserted such as
 * > the behaviours of certain system calls,
 * 
 * Then test for that behavior.
 * 
 * > the presence of ioctl(),
 * 
 * Test for the presence of ioctl().
 * 
 * > the semantics of open()
 * 
 * Test for the semantics of open().
 * 
 * If you do that, you get code that will work on machines that does not
 * define `unix', or that are infact not `unix', but still has the
 * required features.
 * 
 * If you don't do something like this, you end up with code that has
 * more ifdefs that actual code.
 * 
 * /Johan
 */





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