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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Running an editor from ANSI C
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 00:00:34 +0100
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On 07/06/2024 21:04, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 07/06/2024 15:48, David Brown wrote:
>>> On 07/06/2024 12:46, 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,
>>>> plus you get access to a whole lot more besides.
>>>
>>> No, they do not.
>>>
>>> And even if POSIX functionality were "present", whatever you mean by
>>> that, it would be of no help to many C programs.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The fact that cases keep arising where POSIX functionality would solve
>>>> problems that are discussed in this group belies your point.
>>>
>>> There's no doubt that for some C programming, there are POSIX functions
>>> that could help.  And no doubt that this is the case for Malcolm's project.
>>>
>>> That does not in any way demonstrate that POSIX is required for all C
>>> programming, or that C is "essentially crippled" if POSIX is not available.
>>>
>> Any idiot can write a shell using Posix.
>>
>> The whole point is to it in pure C.
> 
> How does your pure "C" shell
> spawn a new process without using posix or other OS-specific
> APIs?

It can call "system". And it can call internal executables written in 
MiniBasic. It's single-threaded of course.

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