According to Bruce Korb on 2/22/2010 3:50 PM: >> The question, though, is whether cygwin's extension is useful enough to >> push on all platforms. Gnulib tends to favor glibc extensions rather than >> cygwin extensions. In other words, it is hard to justify replacing a >> glibc function that is perfectly standards-compliant. > > My philosophy is slightly different. I prefer to go with whatever it is > that makes life easier for programming to multiple platforms.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11312 We'll see if others agree with your argument, or whether it is just simpler to fix the caller. I'd prefer to wait for some feedback from the glibc folks before doing anything in gnulib. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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