[PATCH]: `wincap' instead of `os_being_run' and `iswinnt'

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed Sep 12 15:53:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 04:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I have just checked in a huge patch which changes all code which
> asks for the OS to behave different on different systems.
> 
> The global variables `os_being_run' and `iswinnt' are eliminated.
> 
> Instead we have a new global variable called `wincap' which is
> the only member of class `wincapc'. The definition of that stuff
> is in the new file wincap.h.

Nice. It's the logical extension of what I'd started with the daemon
patch for expediency.

Rob



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