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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Nov 30 07:26, Eric Blake wrote:
> > According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/30/2007 7:20 AM:
> > >
> > > However, this *is* a problem in the newlib/cygwin headers.  Cygwin
> > > exports a timezone function and a _timezone variable.  The timezone
> > > function was an ill-advised invention in Cygwin way back in the last
> > > century.  Unfortunately it has to be kept for backward compatibility.
> >
> > For 1.5.x, yes.  But can we delete timezone() for 1.7.x, on the grounds
> > that any binary that still uses the timezone function is old enough that
> > it would benefit from re-porting to the latest cygwin sources anyway?
>
> I'm thinking along the same lines.  While that breaks backward
> compatibility, I'm not overly concerned in case of applications which
> have never been ported to a newer Cygwin version the last 10 or so
> years.

And plus, renaming the function to, e.g., _cygwin_timezone will allow for
a one-line fix for those applications...
	Igor
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