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From: Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4242@kylheku.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Bug in TIME function
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0def9af2a0ac7dbb8824b254a658fd4c@mail.kylheku.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df535cb4d232ac87cc582e54fad58e01@mail.kylheku.com>

On 2019-09-12 11:16, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> So even in light of the goal of Cygwin providing GNU/Linux 
> compatibility
> beyond POSIX, there is no justification for supporting times(0).

What I wrote here is not true; on Linux, this is a system call, which
provides detection of some kinds of bad pointers, turning them into 
-1/EFAULT.




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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-12 18:16 tlake
2019-09-12 18:44 ` Kaz Kylheku
2019-09-13  0:50   ` Kaz Kylheku [this message]
2019-09-12 23:03 ` Brian Inglis
2019-09-13 11:37   ` tlake
2019-09-13 19:59     ` Wayne Davison
2019-09-13 23:05       ` Kaz Kylheku
2019-09-18  0:16         ` Brian Inglis
2019-09-16  7:30 ` Achim Gratz

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