Re: [jamboost] Re: Use of _exit() in execunix.c?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-01 08:28:16

On Monday 01 August 2005 17:21, Rene Rivera wrote:

> >>As it turns out the answer to that is "no". The file is failing to build
> >>on platforms that don't have the header. So it must be included
> >>conditionally.
> >
> > Can you name the platforms that miss that header? (Assuming we don't wont
> > to use autoconf ;-) )
>
> Unfortunately I can't name all of them. All I know is that it doesn't
> work with MSVC. As that's what was reported by users. I was going to go
> the other way and include it for MACOSX and SUNOS which are the ones we
> know it's needed so far. But CVS went down yesterday :-( ... I'm trying
> again now.

The interesting question is why "execunix.c" is compiled on NT, when there's 
"execnt.c" as well.

- Volodya

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