"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> > How many of them can't be changed (fixed?)
> > to do something like:
> 
> It would be unpleasant to alter every single program one wanted to
> port with a compat library.

Some would say that it's unpleasant to write inherently unportable
code to begin with, especially if those unportabilities are hard to
work around on other systems when porting the code.  8-)



cgd
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