Modern languages

[Hal Murray]

gem at rellim.com said:
> I agree, way too much work.  I would leave OS compat #ifdefs as they are.
>  Partly because testing an alternative would be a pain.  A few things
> could be combined using POSIX. 

My comment about a different module for each OS/environment was assuming 
we were working with a modern language without #ifdefs.

Another approach would be to implement droproot in c where we can use 
#ifdef.  That assumes our new wonderful modern language has a reasonable 
way to call c code.

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