From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: strcasecmp revisited
1 Dec 1998 07:50:20 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19981201152147.18729.rocketmail.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@send103.yahoomail.com>
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To:	cygwin developers <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

---Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>
> 
> My only concern is that some target or other may have code which
> relies on the current behavior even though it is non-standard.
> 

But, that means the analyst is conforming to an undocumented feature. 
I'd rather it have a standard behavior, and since cygwin is supposed
to be ANSI/POSIX standardized IMHO you should make the change without
regard to what someone might currently be doing that is non-standard.

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