Proposal for discussion - remove all Windows-port cruft

[Eric S. Raymond]

Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com>:
> How much window porting cruft is there?

7.5KLOC in 88 files, about half of which are under libisc/win32 and
ports/winnt.  That's actually quite a lot, about 1 in 12 lines of the
entire codebase.  Hal undercounted because he wasn't looking outside
those directories.

SYS_WINNT is the last port macro left, and technically violates our C99/ANSI-only
policy.

> I would like to see it run.  I'm going to be at OSCON next week, and will
> have a conversation with one of the MSFT people who implemented the the
> syscall shim,

Please do that.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>