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On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 06:01:49PM +0000, Waldemar Rachwal wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>>This comment comes from a bug report which eventually resulted in a fix
>>to the linux kernel.
>
>Linux is useful, but isn't any proof.  From the fact they change it,
>one of the implementation may be wrong, and nobody says newer is better
>:) Sorry, I am not a guru and may be wrong, but still trying to
>understand the subject while reading the standard.

Cygwin's stated goal is to emulate Linux.  We may deviate from that out
of necessity from time to time but there is no need to do so in this
case.

cgf

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