cygwin1.dll bug in ftime

Mon Mar 25 06:48:00 GMT 2002

Sounds to me like Cygwin is SUS-compliant here to me. Perhaps you'd get a
more sympathetic response if you posted code that does what you need, is 
itself SUS-compliant, and has trouble on Cygwin but not other SUS-compliant
platforms. While it's always preferable that bug reports come with patches
for review, a simple, clear test case which shows the problem effectively is
the next best thing. Sometimes it even prods someone else to fix the problem
you're seeing! ;-)
Just a thought,
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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At 08:10 AM 3/25/2002, Wu Yongwei wrote:
>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.
>>Best regards,
>>Wu Yongwei
>>"Fleischer, Karsten (K.)" wrote:
> > 
> > > Also notes the usage of "unspecified". "Unspecified" means
> > > the standard does
> > > not say anything about the implementation, and, IMHO, the
> > > implementors are
> > > free to choose the best practices.
> > 
> > ... or to not implement anything at all.
> > 
> > > I think it is obviously a
> > > good way to
> > > follow BSD.
> > 
> > Possibly.
> > The better way for application developers is to follow the Single UNIX > Specification.
> > Any application relying on results that are explicitely marked as
> > "unspecified" in the SUS standard can be considered non-portable.
> > 
> > >From the SUSv3 documentation:
> > 
> > APPLICATION USAGE
> > For applications portability, the time() function should be used to
> > determine the current time instead of ftime().
> > 
> > Karsten
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