[swift-server-dev] Posix Module

[Michael Gottesman]

Actually swift-evolution. There was a thread about it already:

https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mon-20160307/012085.html

It was only a draft but people IIRC people viewed it favorably (don't quote me on this though, my memory might be wrong). Perhaps no one got behind implementing it? (again my memory is gone).

Michael

> On Oct 28, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Daniel Dunbar via swift-server-dev <swift-server-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Given the Glibc overlay lives in Swift, this probably is more appropriate for swift-dev rather than the server APIs project specifically.
> 
> - Daniel
> 
>> On Oct 28, 2016, at 8:51 AM, Helge Heß via swift-server-dev <swift-server-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I guess this kinda belongs here:
>> 
>> I wonder whether we can have a standard Posix module with all the standard Posix stuff in it to avoid the
>> 
>> #if os(Linux)
>>   import Glibc
>> #else
>>   import Darwin
>> #endif
>> 
>> for things which are standardised in Posix (and hence the same, even on Windoze). I currently have an `xsys` module to alias the definitions, but this is kinda crap :-)
>> 
>> https://github.com/NozeIO/Noze.io/tree/master/Sources/xsys
>> 
>> Or is there a better way to do this already?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Helge
>> 
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