Build-Breaking MingW 3.3 Stuff

Mon Apr 14 12:58:00 GMT 2003

Hi Andrew,
> > >I can't help thinking that life would be much nicer if java.nio and
> > >java.net had an OS abstraction layer that both used. That way, fixing
> > >problems like this wouldn't touch common code.
> > 
> > This approach was discussed at length, but in the end,
> > Adam Megacz decided against it and instead
> > recommended forking the Win32 net code and Posix code
> > completely:
> > 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-01/msg00093.html
>>Sounds like that's exactly what I'm suggesting.

I thought you were suggesting an OS abstraction layer at C library
level, not the JNI level.
>That patch doesn't seem to touch java.nio, which is where the problem
>we're discussing lies.

You're right. I had eyeballed the patch and assumed java.nio was in there
too. We'll also need a fork for natFileChannelImpl.cc when this is eventually
implemented.
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