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 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:20:04 +0100 From: Elfyn McBratney To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: basename(), dirname(), what happened? Message-ID: <20030829112004.GO614@emcb.co.uk> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <181672454899.20030826123033@familiehaase.de> <20030829100633.GH614@emcb.co.uk> <126165476933.20030829122848@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <126165476933.20030829122848@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Hello Elfyn, > > >> I found a thread from January about these two functions. Are they > >> included in the meantime? > > > Nope. I was working on implementing there libgen functions as I had a > > need for them in application where they were a) not availabe and b) I > > could not use the *BSD/[L]GPL versions. > > Why are the *BSD versions not usable? Where I was working at the time, they we're afraid of "free software". Some people, eh? > > I believe Nicholas Worums was working (or still is working) on importing > > them into newlib, at least that's how I read a post of his on > > cygwin-patches, IIRC. > > > I would do this myself, but I have committed myself to far too much, and > > even simple things like this just get left on the back-burner. > > No problem, I need also 24 more hours a day;) -- Elfyn -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/