[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] make demuxer_get_percent_pos() recheck file length

[Joey Parrish]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Tuesday, 04 October 2005 at 14:11, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 October 2005 05:46, Rich Felker wrote:
> > 
> > > It would be nice if mingw did the minimal wrapping necessary to make
> > > windows libc nonbroken, without providing full posix emulation bloat.
> > > BTW isn't win nt/2k/xp/etc. supposed to be posix compliant (or at
> > > least include a layer that is)? Does that mean on modern versions of
> > > windows, sockets can be used as normal file descriptors?
> > 
> > No it has a posix subsystem, implementing the bare minimum to comply
> > to some minimum posix standard. It's totally isolated from the rest of the
> > system and if you use the posix stuff you can't actually use any of the
> > regular win32 stuff... It's basically just there so they can claim the certificate.
> > 
> > 
> > Then there's also Interix which is "full" Unix compatibility layer, supposedly
> > this is what they sell to customers who want to migrate stuff from Unix to
> > windows, and it provides enough Unix to run alot of Unix apps. Even NetBSD's
> > pkgsrc claims to support Interix.
> 
> What about SFU (Services For Unix, not Shut the F*** Up ;>)? It's free to download
> now.

I thought SFU was something to do with offering print services to Unix
boxen without samba.

--Joey

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