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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:31:04 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?
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Someone on the cygwin irc channel had a problem building a package which
would have been solved if Cygwin defined _POSIX_SOURCE.

I know that Cygwin is not fully POSIX compliant (I really really do) but
I'm wondering if setting _POSIX_SOURCE in the cygwin headers wouldn't
solve more porting problems than it creates.

Any opinions on this?  Eric?

cgf

P.S.  I know that Cygwin isn't fully compliant with POSIX specifications.

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