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From: Oberhumer Markus <k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Subject: 971114: misc notes
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:01:22 +0100 (MET)
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Subject: 971114: misc notes

- long time ago, when the MiNT kernel was adding UNIX support
  to TOS (on the Atari ST) they introduced /dev/a/ as a 
  synonym for a:\ - this really worked fine.
  IMHO it is much better than those //A/ or \\A\ suggestions.

- mktime() still doesn't handle daylight saving gaps.
  See gnu/filutil3.16/lib/mktime.c what GNU thinks about this problem.

- disable/enable still call the DPMI functions, which are more
  broken than the cli/sti emulation

- sopen should be made a function (beacuse of variable arguments)
  and documented

- _fsopen is not implemented

- the _system_* flags are both in <stdlib.h> and <sys/system.h>

- for compatibility with Microsoft C and Watcom C I suggest
  adding <sys/utime.h>