Re: [HACKERS] xlog.c.patch for cygwin port.

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, yutaka tanida <yutaka@marin.or.jp>, Alexei Zakharov <A.S.Zakharov@inp.nsk.su>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-03-08T05:50:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 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().  Ithink defining the flags
is much better.

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