[mercury-users] io.m, directory listing

[Fergus Henderson]

On 07-Oct-1999, Tomas By <tomas at research.nj.nec.com> wrote:
> Fergus Henderson writes:
> > Well, looking at the functionality, io.m has facilities for creating files,
> > so it seems to make sense for it to also have facilities for deleting them.
> 
> Hmm ok fair enuf. But then why exclude the POSIX stuff in <sys/stat.h>
> and <unistd.h>?

Because it would be difficult to port that stuff to non-POSIX platforms
(e.g. Mac, or Windows without Cygwin).

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