[ANNOUNCE] Win32POSIX v1.12b

[ANNOUNCE] Win32POSIX v1.12b

[Pascal Obry]

Hi,

I have just uploaded a new version of Win32POSIX. A POSIX implementation for
Windows based system. This is just a partial implementation since Windows is
really far to be POSIX compliant :)

Thanks a lot to Jean-Pierre.Rosen ;) for his contributions. Jean-Pierre as
continued the foolish project to have a POSIX interface on native (read non
Cygwin based) Windows :) and we can tell you that it is quite difficult! Win32
API is just plain amazing sometimes :)

Anyway you'll find v1.12b on my homepage. A direct access to the Win32POSIX
page is: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/archive/w32posix.html

Here are the main changes:

<<
changes since 1.11b
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POSIX API should be thread safe. In many places this was not true before.

POSIX.Process_Primitives
	It is possible to launch .com and .exe (not only .exe as before).

POSIX.Calendar
	Handle milliseconds.

POSIX.Files
	Is_Symbolic_Link added.
	Is_Socket added.
	Both always return False on Win32.
	For_Every_Directory_Entry, check for pathname with directory separator.

POSIX.File_Status
	Get_File_Status new version should be better than before. Do not
	handle devices as this seems to be impossible on Win32.

POSIX.Process_Environment
	Environment_Value_Of correctly return Undefined if variable not found.

Reformat the code.
>>

Enjoy,
Pascal.

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