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From: gfinney@xroads.UUCP (Guy A. Finney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Want advice on porting to Sys V
Message-ID: <661@xroads.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 06:48:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Crossroads, Phoenix, Az
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Ok, I can hear you all chuckling at my plight.  I'm not holding out hope
of anyone making my task easy, but do hope that enough people have done
this (porting the client development environment, not servers, to Sys V)
that I can get a hint or two.

Do I have to become a BSD whiz to emulate the various functions (e.g.
select(), setitimer()) to get anywhere, or can I cheat somehow?  (I've
sometimes thought it's better to know how to cheat well than to be good).
How is it that X is heralded as portable when it's got so much BSD stuff
baked into it?  I guess I could do the world a favor and go at this in a
big way, donating the result to the keepers, but business deadlines don't
permit me a liesurly pace.

Any pointers?
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