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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:50:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Prentis Brooks <prentis AT aol DOT net>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: TCP Wrappers Port
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Prentis Brooks wrote:

> Based on what I have read so  far, I think it may be best to stick with the
> strerror() since that appears to be the way some of the other developers are
> going (based primarily on MKS's website)
> 
> http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man5/sys_errlist.5.asp

I really don't see why you would want to change anything at all! My
trivial patch does the job just fine, and it's been accepted by the
author, which means that the next release should not need any changes 
for Cygwin. 

Principle of minimum changes to existing packages is a good one.

Regards,
Mumit



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