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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:50:37 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: release schedule and a problem on getopt_long.
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:46:07AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Not really a problem; I simply linked in gettext's copy of the GNU 
>version of the getopt functions.  But. I am curious why cygwin's 
>implementation forces POSIXLY_CORRECT.  Anybody know?

I seem to recall that I did this to force similar behavior with the
previous version of cygwin's getopt.  There may even be a discussion
about this in the archives somewhere.

cgf