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From:	Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To:	"'Wu Yongwei'" <adah AT sh163 DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	RE: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:29:43 +0100
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Hi,

what seems to confuse everybody here on the list:
You want ENOSYS for compatibility reasons, but still
timezone information, two mutually exclusive things?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wu Yongwei [SMTP:adah AT sh163 DOT net]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 26, 2002 14:41
> To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject:	Re: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]

> Note that my quotation says about "the GNU operating system", and even at
> that time gettimeofday should return -1 and set errno. Cygwin does not do
> it.
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]

> > Thank you for your suggestions. The points are:
> >
> > 1) Cygwin did very well, but not now;
> >
> > 2) I was not using ftime to get time, but to get timezone information.
> >
> > 3) timezone variable is not usable in Cygwin.
> >
> > So timezone is now not portable. Cygwin broke some "unportable" code.
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]

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