On 2017-07-24 15:02, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]: > >> rather it's a question about portability of code that >> uses %s for both functions and expects it to work unchanged in the >> Cygwin environment. > > And the answer to that question is: such code _is_not_portable_, and therefore > that expectation is wrong. > > If that code claims to be portable, then its use of %s in either of those > functions constitutes a _bug_. > > In the old days there was a well-known fallacy known by the slogan "all the > world's a VAX." Nowadays it appears to have been replaced by an equally > wide-spread, and equally incorrect belief that all the world is Linux. Well, > it's not. Not even the whole Un*x world is Linux.
Rather "all the world's a GNU" i.e. glibc, but there's also BSD libc, RTEMS and Cygwin newlib, and others. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
