gnupg: System Notes
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1 12 Notes pertaining to certain OSes
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1 GnuPG has been developed on GNU/Linux systems and is know to work on
1 almost all Free OSes. All modern POSIX systems should be supported
1 right now, however there are probably a lot of smaller glitches we need
1 to fix first. The major problem areas are:
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1 * We are planning to use file descriptor passing for interprocess
1 communication. This will allow us save a lot of resources and
1 improve performance of certain operations a lot. Systems not
1 supporting this won't gain these benefits but we try to keep them
1 working the standard way as it is done today.
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1 * We require more or less full POSIX compatibility. This has been
1 around for 15 years now and thus we don't believe it makes sense to
1 support non POSIX systems anymore. Well, we of course the usual
1 workarounds for near POSIX systems well be applied.
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1 There is one exception of this rule: Systems based the Microsoft
1 Windows API (called here _W32_) will be supported to some extend.
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