From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:27:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make git-clean a builtin
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710081126340.4964@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <4709D027.3090003@viscovery.net>



On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Jeff King schrieb:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:17:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > fchdir() is not portable.
> > 
> > I was using the "even Solaris has it!" test, but yes, it's not POSIX. I
> > don't know how common it actually is (for curiosity's sake, do you know
> > of a common platform that lacks it?).
> 
> Windows. ;)

Not just windows. Almost no "older" Unix has it. Including older versions 
of Linux.

		Linus