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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:52:47 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: ian@airs.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> That said, I'd probably object if someone would contribute a DJGPP
> port with all its #ifdef's today.

Sometimes, there's no other good way, if the original code was too
entrenched in Posix assumptions (which isn't portability in my book,
btw).

Again, I wonder why you didn't back me up back when Mark Mitchell
submitted his `select' emulation and I suggested to encapsulate the
Windows-specific bits in a Windows-specific file.  Did you change your
views since then?