Re: about lposix

["Jason Zhang" <jzhang@...>]

How about using the OS library of ACE. 
ACE works well on a lot of OS with it's OS wrapper layer.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wim Couwenberg" <w.couwenberg@chello.nl>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: about lposix


> Hi Luiz,
> 
>> So, my suggestion, which has already been made recently, is that we join
>> efforts and write an extended OS library that works on POSIX and Windows,
>> and that can be easily ported to other OS. That requires that we reach
>> an agreement about what to include in it and most important what *not* to
>> include.
> 
> Promising plan.  I'd like to help out on the Windows and OS X part where 
> possible.  I (like David I suspect) have made several attempts at such a 
> unified library (on Linux and Win32) several times.  It is not simple, 
> alas.  Some fairly straight forward concepts are annoyingly different in 
> POSIX vs. Windows and not all differences are easy to overcome.
> 
> Such a library would require a very well-thought-out basis and a main 
> owner/moderator.
> 
> If everyone just starts contributing small snippets here and there then 
> I'm quite convinced that it will not work, at all.
> 
> --
> Wim
>