From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Paul Edwards  writes:   
   >> No need to mess with the behavior read() and write().   
   >   
   > No need to mess with the behavior of read() and write() on WHICH   
   > SYSTEM?   
      
   Any system.   
      
   >> But I think we’ve been round that loop and for unknown reasons you   
   >> still seem to want to do it the hard way.   
   >   
   > I don't consider this to be the hard way.   
   >   
   > Can you suggest a syscall that I could use to detect   
   > whether I am running under true Linux or PDOS/386   
   > so that I can get the C library to adjust appropriately?   
      
   uname()   
      
   From another posting:   
      
   > Specifically ones linked with PDPCLIB where I have   
   > done very specific things (which I control) so that   
   > THE BINARIES work on BOTH Linux and PDOS/386.   
      
   Do you get that this is a weird requirement? You could just compile your   
   code twice, one for Linux and once for your toy platform.   
      
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