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Re: upload: diffstat-1.40-1, tar-1.15.1-1


On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:03:58PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>But opening with "rt" is non-POSIX,
>>
>>I don't see what that has to do with anything.
>
>It means that you have to use #ifdef __CYGWIN__ in your sources before
>using it.

Strangely enough, I now realize that I linked with binmode.o to minimize
the number of changes required for open and fopen calls.

Making the code work less well because it would be easier for someone to
accept source code is completely backwards from the end user experience
that cygwin is trying to provide.  We're not going to sacrifice
*functionality* just to adhere to posix standards.

If the upstream maintainer can't accept patches which add "rt" to fopen
then "we" will have to maintain the patches separately.  If this makes
you uncomfortable then I'll happily reacquire tar maintainership.

cgf


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