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Re: [PATCH]: `wincap' instead of `os_being_run' and `iswinnt'
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH]: `wincap' instead of `os_being_run' and `iswinnt'
- From: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: 13 Sep 2001 08:54:04 +1000
- References: <20010912202058.H1285@cygbert.vinschen.de>
On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 04:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I have just checked in a huge patch which changes all code which
> asks for the OS to behave different on different systems.
>
> The global variables `os_being_run' and `iswinnt' are eliminated.
>
> Instead we have a new global variable called `wincap' which is
> the only member of class `wincapc'. The definition of that stuff
> is in the new file wincap.h.
Nice. It's the logical extension of what I'd started with the daemon
patch for expediency.
Rob