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Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:01:24 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: S_IXUSR & Co macro problem - zsh does not compile under current cygwin.
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In-Reply-To:	<001401c0d161$bc514710$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:38:46PM +0400

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:38:46PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>> >
>> >SUS does not clear specify if these macros should be #defines. But, is it
>> >necessary to make them external variables? const is real const in
>> C++ but not
>> >in C, sigh.
>>
>> Nope, not necessary at all.
>>
>> This is just part of a massive "Arbitrarily make everything a
>> global variable"
>> campaign.  Phase two will be to have Cygwin prompt you for the values of
>> the variables whenever you want to use them.
>>
>
>Is it possible, that values of _cygwin_S_IEXEC, _cygwin_S_IXUSR,
>_cygwin_S_IXGRP, _cygwin_S_IXOTH change during program execution?

No.  That's why they are declared with a 'const'.

cgf

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