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diff --git a/docs/INTERNALS b/docs/INTERNALS index de86315ac..b35298dea 100644 --- a/docs/INTERNALS +++ b/docs/INTERNALS @@ -36,22 +36,25 @@ Windows vs Unix the Windows way. The four perhaps most notable details are: 1. Different function names for close(), read(), write() + + In curl, this is solved with defines and macros, so that the source looks + the same at all places except for the header file that defines them. + 2. Windows requires a couple of init calls for the socket stuff + + Those must be made by the application that uses libcurl, in curl that means + src/main.c has some code #ifdef'ed to do just that. + 3. The file descriptors for network communication and file operations are not easily interchangable as in unix + + We avoid this by not trying any funny tricks on file descriptors. + 4. When writing data to stdout, Windows makes end-of-lines the DOS way, thus destroying binary data, although you do want that conversion if it is text coming through... (sigh) - In curl, (1) is made with defines and macros, so that the source looks the - same at all places except for the header file that defines them. - - (2) must be made by the application that uses libcurl, in curl that means - src/main.c has some code #ifdef'ed to do just that. - - (3) is simply avoided by not trying any funny tricks on file descriptors. - - (4) we set stdout to binary under windows + We set stdout to binary under windows Inside the source code, I do make an effort to avoid '#ifdef WIN32'. All conditionals that deal with features *should* instead be in the format |