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RE: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- To: 'Wu Yongwei' <adah at sh163 dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:29:43 +0100
- Subject: RE: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime
Hi,
what seems to confuse everybody here on the list:
You want ENOSYS for compatibility reasons, but still
timezone information, two mutually exclusive things?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wu Yongwei [SMTP:adah@sh163.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 14:41
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll bug in ftime
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> Note that my quotation says about "the GNU operating system", and even at
> that time gettimeofday should return -1 and set errno. Cygwin does not do
> it.
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> > Thank you for your suggestions. The points are:
> >
> > 1) Cygwin did very well, but not now;
> >
> > 2) I was not using ftime to get time, but to get timezone information.
> >
> > 3) timezone variable is not usable in Cygwin.
> >
> > So timezone is now not portable. Cygwin broke some "unportable" code.
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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