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From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: spawn: Treat empty path as the current directory.
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 04:04:36 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220701040436.d1e0f8151fffe03a0823b99d@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM8PR09MB7095DDCF46700AB235A53717A5BA9@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:35:04 +0000
"Lavrentiev, Anton \(NIH/NLM/NCBI\) \[C\] wrote:
> >                However, use of this feature is deprecated, and POSIX
> >                notes that a conforming application shall use an explicit
> >                pathname (e.g., .)  to specify the current working
> >                directory.
> 
> Since "SHALL" does not mean "MUST", I think this patch is correct.

In the POSIX standard, "SHALL" is used almost interchangeably
with "MUST" as other standard documents do.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xbd_chap01.html#tag_21_01_09

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-30 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-27 12:44 Takashi Yano
2022-06-30 15:45 ` Ken Brown
2022-06-30 18:35   ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-06-30 19:03     ` Brian Inglis
2022-06-30 19:04     ` Takashi Yano [this message]
2022-07-01  1:16   ` Ken Brown
2022-07-01 23:31     ` Takashi Yano
2022-07-02  1:32       ` Ken Brown
2022-07-04  8:37         ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-07-04 23:05           ` Ken Brown
2022-07-05  4:54             ` Takashi Yano

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