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Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:59:22 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Errors compiling cdrtools under cygwin 1.5.19
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On Jan 24 18:46, Simone Crestani wrote:
> Hi,
> I found out that cygwin 1.5.19 gives some problems when I try to compile 
> cdrtools and cdrdao.
> [...]
>    Try to convince cygwin to remove their non-conforming interface
>    definition.
> 
>    The getline() iterface I use goes back to 1982 and has been used in
>    a commercial
>    UNIX clone for a long time.

His fault.  He shouldn't declare a function unconditionally, but use the
system headers if there's a definition available.

As for the correctness, the getline definition in Cygwin's
/usr/include/sys/stdio.h file is *exactly* the definition used on Linux:

  ssize_t getline(char **, size_t *, FILE *);


Corinna

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