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

Sounds like a *great* bug fix to me ... if you "have better things to do",
I can tackle it ...

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Tom Lane 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
> 
> #ifndef __CYGWIN32__
> #define  OPEN_FLAGS_READ   O_RDONLY
> #define  OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE  O_WRONLY
> // etc for the combinations we need
> #else
> #define  OPEN_FLAGS_READ   (O_RDONLY | O_BINARY)
> #define  OPEN_FLAGS_WRITE  (O_WRONLY | O_BINARY)
> // etc
> #endif
> 
> and then the body of the code would have
> 
> 	fd = open(filename, OPEN_FLAGS_READ, 0666);
> 
> and no ifdef.  This would also provide a single place to tweak open()
> flags for other platforms, whereas the existing method is exactly zero
> help for any non-CYGWIN platform that wants to add O_BINARY ...
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
> ************
> 

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