Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 07/06/2024 02:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:54:57 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
 

(mkstemp() is more flexible, but is not defined by ISO C.)

 I’ve said this before: C is essentially crippled without a POSIX layer
underneath.

And you were also wrong the last time you said that.
Pure standard C89/C90 and its standard library is not sufficient for a good implementation of the kind of thing Malcolm is trying to make here.   But that's not surprising - it was never designed or intended to be sufficient for such projects.
But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind of POSIX functionality - your claim is clearly wild and unhelpful exaggeration at best.