_open problem using O_EXCL flag and -mno-cygwin

Fri Dec 15 12:16:00 GMT 2000

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:24:47AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com> wrote:
>> Since this sounds like a question about how the Mingw version (-mno-cygwin)
>> of the compiler works, you should probably direct the question to that list
>> (mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net).
>>>>Wrong advice. -mno-cygwin is a Cygwin specific option. However, this has to
>do with the mingw-runtime and could either be a problem with crtdll or the
>definition of O_EXCL for the mingw-runtime headers.
>>I'll look into this eventually.

I don't understand your response. The person was reporting a problem with,
essentially, a mingw appliation. Larry suggested that the question should
go to the mingw-users mailing list. Why is this incorrect advice?
I would have thought that it was possible that this kind of issue would be
well-known to the users of that list.
Certainly -mno-cygwin is an option to the Cygwin version of gcc but the
resulting code should be nearly identical to a "native" mingw compiler.
That puts this question into the realm of a mingw mailing list, IMO.
cgf
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