Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: Heribert Dahms To: "'Wu Yongwei'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:38:33 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Hi, the serious misunderstanding is that something being standard conformant doesn't mean it is much usable. Prime example is original MS Posix subsystem: Just enough fulfilling the requirements for selling to US government, but not usable for writing anything more complex than cat, or else whole cygwin wouldn't exist! Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com) > -----Original Message----- > From: Wu Yongwei [SMTP:adah@netstd.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 03:46 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime > [Heribert] [snip] > There is a SERIOUS misunderstanding about standards conformance here. An > unusable timezone is a violation, but well-behaved ftime and gettimeofday > are NOT. > [Heribert] [snip] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/