making j2se more portable

Pieter Libin pieter.libin at gmail.com
Thu May 31 18:20:38 UTC 2007


the name can be discussed,
maybe _nix or something

On 5/31/07, Phil Race <Phil.Race at sun.com> wrote:
> 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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