Re: [Mingw-users] Where is __dirstream_t really defined?

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Keith Marshall <
kei...@us...> wrote:

> > Not saying it's a great practice, though. So I'd like to make it
> compilable
> > somehow, it works for other Unix flavors, incl. Cygwin.
>
> Really?  You amaze me.  Can you name any such Unix flavours?  (FWIW,
> GNU/Linux certainly isn't among them).
>
http://sourceforge.net/p/aranym/code/ci/master/tree/src/gui-sdl/file.cpp#l63
.. works on all Linuxes, FreeBSD, Solaris and Cygwin for good 10+ years.
Via #ifdefs, but works.

Like Eli says, your code snippet is not portable; in fact, it is just
> plain broken.

Guys, there's no need to show off, I'm not the author, I don't advocate for
that code, I was just unaware of its nonportability, that's all. I'll try
to patch it in a more portable way and I'm thankful you showed me the right
way.