From: "Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin strptime() is missing "%s" which strftime() has
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fb73f15-64b7-e10c-1e24-12ca9aa7c78b@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY1PR09MB0343663DE41D927E67CF0CCEA5BB0@BY1PR09MB0343.namprd09.prod.outlook.com>
Am 24.07.2017 um 04:09 schrieb Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]:
> rather it's a question about portability of code that
> uses %s for both functions and expects it to work unchanged in the
> Cygwin environment.
And the answer to that question is: such code _is_not_portable_, and
therefore that expectation is wrong.
If that code claims to be portable, then its use of %s in either of
those functions constitutes a _bug_.
In the old days there was a well-known fallacy known by the slogan "all
the world's a VAX." Nowadays it appears to have been replaced by an
equally wide-spread, and equally incorrect belief that all the world is
Linux. Well, it's not. Not even the whole Un*x world is Linux.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-24 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-24 9:21 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2017-07-24 10:53 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-07-24 21:02 ` Kaz Kylheku
2017-07-24 21:28 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker [this message]
2017-07-24 23:18 ` Brian Inglis
2017-07-24 23:31 ` Kaz Kylheku
2017-07-25 18:27 ` Brian Inglis
2017-08-30 0:25 ` Brian Inglis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-24 21:48 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2017-07-24 22:12 ` Eric Blake
2017-07-24 22:51 ` Brian Inglis
2017-07-24 19:51 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2017-07-24 13:54 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2017-07-24 17:02 ` Eric Blake
2017-07-23 11:38 Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2017-07-23 21:18 ` Kaz Kylheku
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