Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <mha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Should work fine on Windows. fileno() is deprecated however, with the > > following comment: > > C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio > > 8\VC\INCLUDE\stdio.h(688) : see > > declaration of 'fileno' > > Message: 'The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, > > use the ISO C++ conformant name: _fileno. See online help for details.' > > Only Microsoft would think that they get to unilaterally deprecate a > POSIX standard API :-( Yeah, these are the same guys who chose to implement select() to only work on sockets and not on plain file descriptors (for example you can't make it work on a pipe). This must be the single most far-reaching change they did to POSIX compatibility. It's incredibly idiotic and problematic. And note that it's not that it's deprecated -- it just doesn't work at all :-( -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
