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From: Eric Blake

> No, but it DOES come from POSIX:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isprint.html
>
> And cygwin's behavior matches POSIX on this point; the bug is in your
> program, not cygwin.

Call me blown away by the level of support this function that
dumps core is getting, when it could act sanely (IMHO) with a 
simple "if" statement! So much for defensive programming.

--Ken Nellis


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