Windows Compatability Functions

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Name

Windows Compatability Functions -- functions to support portability to the Windows environment.

Synopsis

#include <glib.h>


#define     MAXPATHLEN
#define     NAME_MAX
#define     getcwd
#define     getpid
typedef     pid_t;
#define     access
#define     open
#define     read
#define     write
#define     lseek
#define     close
#define     pipe                            (phandles)
#define     popen
#define     pclose
#define     fdopen
#define     ftruncate                       (fd, size)
#define     opendir
#define     readdir
#define     rewinddir
#define     closedir

Description

These functions and macros are provided in the GLib library when compiled on the Windows platform.

Many of the macros simply rename available windows functions so that they use the same name as the standard Unix functions. This means that code written for the Unix platform will work without change under Windows.

A few additional constants, types, and functions are also provided, to provide a common base set of functions across both the Unix and Windows environments.

Details

MAXPATHLEN

#  define MAXPATHLEN 1024

NAME_MAX

#    define NAME_MAX 255

getcwd

#    define getcwd		_getcwd

getpid

#    define getpid		_getpid

pid_t

typedef int pid_t;

access

#    define access		_access

open

#    define open		_open

read

#    define read		_read

write

#    define write		_write

lseek

#    define lseek		_lseek

close

#    define close		_close

pipe()

#    define pipe(phandles)	_pipe (phandles, 4096, _O_BINARY)

phandles :

popen

#    define popen		_popen

pclose

#    define pclose		_pclose

fdopen

#    define fdopen		_fdopen

ftruncate()

#    define ftruncate(fd, size)	gwin_ftruncate (fd, size)

`fd` :
`size` :

opendir

#    define opendir		gwin_opendir

readdir

#    define readdir		gwin_readdir

rewinddir

#    define rewinddir		gwin_rewinddir

closedir

#    define closedir		gwin_closedir