Re: [Mingw-users] Re: More patch 2.5.9 hacking

[Earnie Boyd]

Manu wrote:
> If MinGW developers accept the following changes to MinGW's unistd.h,
> it would definitely fix that problem, in a very clean way:
>
> <unistd.h>
> /*
>  * This file is part of the Mingw32 package.
>  *
>  * unistd.h maps (roughly) to io.h
>  */
>
> #ifndef __STRICT_ANSI__
Add an error here:
#ifdef mkdir
# error You have defined mkdir as a macro
#endif

> #include <io.h>
> #include <process.h>
>
> #ifndef mkdir
Remove this conditional since we've already check for definition and 
presented an error.
> # define mkdir(name, mode) ((mkdir) (name))
Change this to
#define mkdir(name, mode) ((_mkdir) (name))

You must use the MS defined _mkdir reference.
> #endif
>
> #endif
>
> </unistd.h>
>
> Since unistd.h is not a standard header under Windows,
> adding a bit more of Unix inside shouldn't bring the chaos,
> it would fix a very common and so boring problem, then
> porters will concentrate their efforts on something more
> _consistent_.

Yes I agree.

Earnie.
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