On: Giving C++ std:regex a C makeover

[flohofwoe]

UNIX isn't the only operating system in the world though, a lot of C programming happens on Windows with MSVC (or embedded platforms, or WASM).

[jandrese → flohofwoe]

Yeah, and on those platforms the functions exist if they make sense. If you're talking about some tiny embedded thing with no MMU or OS then it might not, but programming on those is a specialized task anyway so it doesn't really matter.

[foldr → jandrese]

They're talking about Windows, which doesn't have select/poll (except for sockets, kind of).