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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 23:59:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <v406ta$29fla$6@dont-email.me> References: <v3pge7$uf2i$1@dont-email.me> <v3r2pl$16mtl$1@dont-email.me> <v3r7v8$1b57j$1@dont-email.me> <v3rek5$1c4i5$1@dont-email.me> <v3rrtm$1e6g8$1@dont-email.me> <v3ru84$1eafb$1@dont-email.me> <87o78dzw1a.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <v3tkmb$1o860$3@dont-email.me> <v3uk0l$20s0s$2@dont-email.me> <v3uoeo$21g4g$5@dont-email.me> <v3v25a$2369h$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 01:59:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="41ddd3104c6f00811ea81eed5288e7ff"; logging-data="2408106"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+9RelSlyroBaMl0DaMAS39" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0FwbkvRo5QZsxB428SV57HJ4FI= Bytes: 1963 On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 09:32:26 -0400, James Kuyper wrote: > On 6/7/24 06:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:31:01 +0200, David Brown wrote: >> >>> But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind >>> of POSIX functionality ... >> >> And all those same programs work in the presence of POSIX >> functionality, > > Even those that rely upon some other operating system's corresponding > functionality instead? If it really was “corresponding”, then it would already be available via some POSIX-compatible wrapper for that OS. > ... POSIX is not the be-all and end-all of operating systems. You’re right. It’s not. Linux is.