Re: Build-Breaking MingW 3.3 Stuff

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi Andrew,
 > 
 > > > >I can't help thinking that life would be much nicer if java.nio and
 > > > >java.net had an OS abstraction layer that both used.  That way, fixing
 > > > >problems like this wouldn't touch common code.
 > > > 
 > > > This approach was discussed at length, but in the end,
 > > > Adam Megacz decided against it and instead
 > > > recommended forking the Win32 net code and Posix code
 > > > completely:
 > > > 
 > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-01/msg00093.html
 > >
 > >Sounds like that's exactly what I'm suggesting.
 > 
 > I thought you were suggesting an OS abstraction layer at C library
 > level, not the JNI level.

I don't care, as long as fixing a bug on POSIXy systems doesn't break
Win32 and vice versa.

Andrew.