Hi, I saw Walter added new functions (getgid, getuid and such) to the linux module that are POSIX functions[1] on Phobos changeset 578[2].

Wouldn't be better to create a posix module with all POSIX functionality (or event better, a posix package, with the same structure as the standard suggests for grouping the functionality, like std.posix.unistd, std.posix.fcntl, etc.)? And leave the linux package for Linux specific stuff, like epoll, tipc, eventfd, clone, etc.?

I think D2 is a good place to do that...

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/unistd.h.html [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/578

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Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Hi, I saw Walter added new functions (getgid, getuid and such) to the linux
> module that are POSIX functions[1] on Phobos changeset 578[2].
> 
> Wouldn't be better to create a posix module with all POSIX functionality
> (or event better, a posix package, with the same structure as the standard
> suggests for grouping the functionality, like std.posix.unistd,
> std.posix.fcntl, etc.)? And leave the linux package for Linux specific
> stuff, like epoll, tipc, eventfd, clone, etc.?
> 
> I think D2 is a good place to do that...
> 
> [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/unistd.h.html
> [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/578
> 

Yes, it would probably be nice to create a unistd.d. Would you like to do it?

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1@digitalmars.com)'s article
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> > Hi, I saw Walter added new functions (getgid, getuid and such) to the linux module that are POSIX functions[1] on Phobos changeset 578[2].
> >
> > Wouldn't be better to create a posix module with all POSIX functionality (or event better, a posix package, with the same structure as the standard suggests for grouping the functionality, like std.posix.unistd, std.posix.fcntl, etc.)? And leave the linux package for Linux specific stuff, like epoll, tipc, eventfd, clone, etc.?
> >
> > I think D2 is a good place to do that...
> >
> > [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/unistd.h.html [2] http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/578
> >
> Yes, it would probably be nice to create a unistd.d. Would you like to do it?

Hasn't Sean Kelly already done this for Tango? http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/browser/trunk/tango/stdc/posix/unistd.d

It says "Public Domain".

jcc7 wrote:
> Hasn't Sean Kelly already done this for Tango?
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/browser/trunk/tango/stdc/posix/unistd.d

Looks like he has! Great!

> It says "Public Domain".

Even better!