Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Anyone see the need for extUnix?

[Janne H. <jjh...@gm...>]

Wouldn't this go against the "Ocaml source only" (unwritten, unofficial?)
policy of ExtLib?  As it is, code using ExtLib will work on both Windows and
Unix.  If we were to extend Unix, would this portability be broken easily?

Janne

On 11/9/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle...@me...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I use ExtLib specifically for ExtSting and ExtList but now and
> then find there are standard POSIX functions that I would like to
> use that aren't available in the standard Ocaml Unix module.
>
> The most recent missing function was chroot, but I'm sure I've
> come across others.
>
> Is there any interest in adding an ExtUnix module?
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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