On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, David Reid wrote:
> OK, so this isn't try 999 but it feels like it!
>
> One of the arguments that Tom came up with for not liking the patches
> was that
>
> (paraphrasing)
> "the patches make maintainenace harder and don't add anything that could
> help other non-unix platforms"
>
> OK, agreed (up to a point). So, you want easier maintenance? The ONLY
> way that I can think of doing it is to have the platform specific IPC
> stuff in it's own file, hence this patch. The core functions, the ones
> that have no platform specific code in them, still live in ipc.c but all
> the functions that are touched by platform code live in either
> ipc_unix.c or ipc_beos.c. Using this there's no reason why other
> platforms can't do the same. Even native windows functions could be
> written using the split and the code should be easily maintainable by
> the people for each platform.
This sounds reasonable to me ... or am I overlooking something obvious?
