making j2se more portable

Phil Race Phil.Race at Sun.COM
Thu May 31 18:10:54 UTC 2007


Not sure about that for a couple of reasons

* The largest chunk of code in src/solaris is related to UI libs
(eg X11 etc) which is not in the scope of POSIX. I suspect the
same goes for a chunk of the rest.

* Some versions of Windows are in fact POSIX compliant too

-phil.

Gary Benson wrote:
> Pieter Libin wrote:
>> However, I think renaming the solaris directory into unix would
>> make a lot of sense.
> 
> "posix" would probably be more correct.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary



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