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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:03:46 -0700
From: Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4242 AT kylheku DOT com>
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On 2019-09-12 11:16, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> So even in light of the goal of Cygwin providing GNU/Linux 
> compatibility
> beyond POSIX, there is no justification for supporting times(0).

What I wrote here is not true; on Linux, this is a system call, which
provides detection of some kinds of bad pointers, turning them into 
-1/EFAULT.


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