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Subject: RE: Define _POSIX_SOURCE in cygwin's features.h?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:06:43 -0000
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> If I could easily make cygwin behave exactly the same way so that a
> buffer overrun that worked on linux went undetected on cygwin, too, I'd
> do that?  If there was some linker option to ensure that, I'd use it.
> 
> The point of cygwin isn't that it is a place where you find bugs which
> you should have fixed on linux.  Every place where there is a barrier
> to porting a program from linux to cygwin is YA opportunity for someone
> to give up in disgust or (maybe worse) send a "I get compile error"
> message here.
> 
> But, I understand your opinion on the matter.
> 


  I understand yours too, and it's equally valid.  I'm curious why someone's
application would want to test _POSIX_SOURCE - it should be the app that sets
it or not and it should just know.  But if they've handed the responsibility
to auto* to determine when to use it, and auto* decides YES for Linux, then I
agree it should certainly DTST on Cygwin.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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