From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 44432 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2019 23:03:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 44424 invoked by uid 89); 12 Sep 2019 23:03:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Languages-Length:360, HX-PHP-Originating-Script:rcmail.php, H*u:0.9.2, H*UA:0.9.2 X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 23:03:50 +0000 Received: from kylheku.com ([70.79.163.252]) by shaw.ca with ESMTPA id 8Y7uigjTBSrVc8Y7vifvvF; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:03:48 -0600 Received: from www-data by kylheku.com with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from <920-082-4242@kylheku.com>) id 1i8Y7u-0000DN-N7 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:03:46 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug in TIME function MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:50:00 -0000 From: Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4242@kylheku.com> In-Reply-To: References: <009d01d56994$a8065040$f812f0c0$@twcny.rr.com> Message-ID: <0def9af2a0ac7dbb8824b254a658fd4c@mail.kylheku.com> X-Sender: 920-082-4242@kylheku.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-09/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 On 2019-09-12 11:16, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > So even in light of the goal of Cygwin providing GNU/Linux=20 > 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=20 -1/EFAULT. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple