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From: Vince Hoffman <Vince DOT Hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Re: help for compiling problem!
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:50:10 -0000 
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Not being much of a programmer let alone a Cygwin developer i'm not realy
the best person to answer... but as Cygwin aims to be a POSIX layer for
windows i would guess that the definitive guide should be
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/
However It seems people also expect the full range of BSD and Linux (and
maybe a few other OS's) specific function also ;) .  
	I agree it would be "Better" to just add functionality but if no
one's has needed it enough to inplement it then it wont be there as this is
an open source project and I doubt that many if indeed any of the people on
this list are being paid to develop for cygwin.
 
	Basicly if Cygwin doesnt do something you'd like it to, either ask
for it and hope someone else wants/feels like adding that functionality, or
else if you need/want it that badly then add it yourself.

just my 1.24 pence (approx 2 cents) 
vince
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Hooper [mailto:dave AT beermex DOT com]
> Sent: 06 January 2003 16:19
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Re: help for compiling problem!
> 
> 
> >>>error:  main.c: undefined reference to '_setlinebuf'
> >>
> > cygwin doesn't provide setlinebuf.
> > In general what this means is that you have to actually 
> "inspect" the
> > code and "port it"
> 
> As a follow up to this, and the earlier thread regarding icmp (which
> presumably is resolved in the same way), would it not be 
> "better" to add
> support for the icmp function and setlinebuf to cygwin?  
> "Better" in the
> sense that Crystal is better than Moet - and I'm not 
> suggesting everyone
> ought to be able to afford Crystal.  Is there any technical reason why
> support cannot be added to Cygwin for these (and other) unprovided
> functions?  Is there a canonical list of what people expect cygwin to
> support vs. what it actually supports, and hence what it 
> currently lacks?
> 
> d
> 
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