Re: [HACKERS] xlog.c.patch for cygwin port.

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > This looks interesting.  We could remove some of our ifwin cruft.
> > 
> > I have been thinking for quite some time that most of the CYGWIN32
> > ifdefs represent very poor programming.  Instead of zillions of
> > 
> > #ifndef __CYGWIN32__
> >     fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY, 0666);
> > #else
> >     fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0666);
> > #endif
> > 
> > we should have in one include file something like
> 
> Do we ever assign a function pointer for open() anywhere.  If so, the
> define will not work without some kind of wrapper, right?

Okay, I'm lost ... if we "#define OPEN_FLAGS .." and not the open itself,
why would we need some kind of wrapper?