Yes, exactly. But at worst you should stuff the nonportability into a library with an API which can be replicated on other platforms (or make that library as portable as possible, and keep it a separate library to keep the ugly away from everyone else.)
Posted Nov 15, 2010 1:37 UTC (Mon) by promotion-account (guest, #70778)
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(btw, your account name is... *interesting*.)
That's descriptive anonymity :)
Readers usually give higher weight to subscribers opinions here, so this handle honestly states that I'm a promoted guest.
Glibc change exposing bugs
Posted Nov 15, 2010 10:39 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Ah. I interpreted it as 'account bought to promote something else', and got confused because most advertisers would try to lie about it and *not* mention their affiliations :)