Patch is in the queue. Seems portability was already tested.
> tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
> >Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Is this safe to put into the main code? It looks fine.
>
> Looks fine to me too, but I suppose you want to know if it works and
> doesn't break anything else...
> The original poster may be able to answer this with more confidence.
>
> >It looks to me like it'll break compatibility with all pre-8.3 Tcls.
> >Need some #ifdef's in there, no?
>
> No, I don't think so. It still uses the older "Tcl v1 channel type"
> structure, not the newer one introduced in Tcl 8.3.2. Should be
> OK back through 8.0, although I base this only on an eyeball-check
> of the Tcl 8.0.5 include files.
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