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<body class='hmmessage'>> > platforms -- surely \ never occurs anyway on Unix... :)<BR>> <BR>> Not sure: can \ be used as an escape in file names?<BR>
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Escaping? At the libc/kernel level? Are you serious?<BR>
I assume they are taken literally and either accepted or rejected.<BR>
I can try some stuff later.<BR>
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But, even if they are accepted literally, nobody uses them.<BR>
FURTHERMORE, there is way too much low level parsing of paths.<BR>
It's a big huge mess. They should probably be parsed into a<BR>
higher level for internal manipulation and then regurgiated into<BR>
an external form for the lower level APIs and for human display.<BR>
Of course, abstraction abstraction abstraction show me the real thing already. :)<BR>
<BR>> I think NT386GNU always used Win32 threads.<BR>
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I think not, but nobody has really said anything with certainty.<BR>
I am not placing bets either way.<BR>
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I have the PM3 source from Elegosoft locally, simple cvs checkout.<BR>
I haven't built it.<BR>
It doesn't show much sign of using native Win32 threads, but I realize<BR>
building the source and looking at the binaries is much more conclusive<BR>
than reading the source.<BR>
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As well, what is PM3-Klagenfurt compard to what I am looking at?<BR>
Should I go and get its source?<BR>
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And, what matters anyway?<BR>
I think this Cygwin port is going to be mostly garbage anyway, and using pthreads does enhance the garbage somewhat what with pthread_once and pthread_cond, that NT doesn't have until Vista (sigh).<BR>
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Oh..I am remembering why it matters. Direct Win32 threads would be nice but you'd have to weed out other stuff, the dependency from the File APIs to the threading library.<BR>
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Once thie "port" is working and available, maybe someone else who actually uses it can improve it? (Bueller?)<BR>
I'd like to get back to adding longint support to the integrated backend and possibly bringing up other targets..<BR>
I mean, heck, I'm no big user/fan of Unix, but running Unix natively has got to be better than this mismash..<BR>
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And the pixmap bug, and the set regression test.. :)<BR>
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