Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 07/06/2024 21:04, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

On 07/06/2024 15:48, David Brown wrote:

On 07/06/2024 12:46, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:31:01 +0200, David Brown wrote:
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But many people have lots of use of programming in C without any kind of
POSIX functionality ...

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And all those same programs work in the presence of POSIX functionality,
plus you get access to a whole lot more besides.

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No, they do not.
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And even if POSIX functionality were "present", whatever you mean by
that, it would be of no help to many C programs.
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The fact that cases keep arising where POSIX functionality would solve
problems that are discussed in this group belies your point.

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There's no doubt that for some C programming, there are POSIX functions
that could help.  And no doubt that this is the case for Malcolm's project.
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That does not in any way demonstrate that POSIX is required for all C
programming, or that C is "essentially crippled" if POSIX is not available.
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Any idiot can write a shell using Posix.
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The whole point is to it in pure C.

 How does your pure "C" shell
spawn a new process without using posix or other OS-specific
APIs?

It can call "system". And it can call internal executables written in MiniBasic. It's single-threaded of course.
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