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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:36:05 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: S_IXUSR & Co macro problem - zsh does not compile under current cygwin.
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In-Reply-To: <001001c0cef3$e9e9ead0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:27:36PM +0400

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 12:27:36PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>#if defined (__CYGWIN__) && !defined (__INSIDE_CYGWIN__)
>extern unsigned const _cygwin_S_IEXEC, _cygwin_S_IXUSR, _cygwin_S_IXGRP,
>_cygwin
>_S_IXOTH;
>#undef S_IEXEC
>#undef S_IXUSR
>#undef S_IXGRP
>#undef S_IXOTH
>#define S_IEXEC         _cygwin_S_IEXEC
>#define S_IXUSR         _cygwin_S_IXUSR
>#define S_IXGRP         _cygwin_S_IXGRP
>#define S_IXOTH         _cygwin_S_IXOTH
>#endif
>
>
>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.

cgf

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