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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To: "'Wu Yongwei'" <adah AT netstd DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:38:33 +0100
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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 AT icon-scm DOT com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wu Yongwei [SMTP:adah AT netstd DOT com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 26, 2002 03:46
> To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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]


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