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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:31:01 +0200
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On 07/06/2024 02:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:54:57 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
> 
>> (mkstemp() is more flexible, but is not defined by ISO C.)
> 
> I’ve said this before: C is essentially crippled without a POSIX layer
> underneath.

And you were also wrong the last time you said that.

Pure standard C89/C90 and its standard library is not sufficient for a 
good implementation of the kind of thing Malcolm is trying to make here. 
  But that's not surprising - it was never designed or intended to be 
sufficient for such projects.

But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind of 
POSIX functionality - your claim is clearly wild and unhelpful 
exaggeration at best.