From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: strcasecmp revisited
1 Dec 1998 08:49:50 -0800
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At 07:21 AM 12/1/98 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>---Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> My only concern is that some target or other may have code which
>> relies on the current behavior even though it is non-standard.
>> 
>
>But, that means the analyst is conforming to an undocumented feature. 
>I'd rather it have a standard behavior, and since cygwin is supposed
>to be ANSI/POSIX standardized IMHO you should make the change without
>regard to what someone might currently be doing that is non-standard.
>


I'll second that.  Better to break something for the sake of a standard
than to propagate a non-standard.  In the end, the latter will be a 
continuous up-hill battle.


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