X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Cygwin and getsubopt Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:47:19 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <43BE983F.1060100@equate.dyndns.org> Message-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Chris Taylor wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:04:01PM +0530, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: >>> I could see getsubopt declaration in the unistd.h >>> but in unix/linux its defined in stdlib.h >>> i have also noticed that cygwin1.dll does not have that function >>> implemented. as strings cygwin1.dll as of the 20060105 snapshot debug >>> version did >>> not give any results for the string getsubopt. >>> Its well supported in all of the unices, i dont know how we missed on >>> it. >> Mwuhahaha. >> >> *wring fingers, cackle insanely, lightening flashes in background* >> >> cgf > *spellcheckers cringe* ? ;) > > > Vijay: you shouldn't expect something to be in cygwin just because all > the other unix derivatives you've used have it.. > Cygwin aims for POSIX compliance, and it's an ongoing project to get > there.. These things take time.. I'm sure that this applies: > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC Patch already posted. Newlib already implements it, so it was just a matter of exporting it. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2006-q1/msg00012.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/